Craig urges eligible residents to apply for fuel assistance - Manchester Ink Link

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Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig connected Oct. 18, 2022. Photo/Andrew Sylvia

MANCHESTER, NH – With the caller emergence successful gas, oil, and electrical costs, Mayor Joyce Craig is urging eligible Manchester residents use for substance assistance funded by the national Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and administered locally by Southern New Hampshire Services. In summation to fuel assistance, eligible residents tin concurrently use for electric assistance, besides administered by SNHS.

“Colder upwind is here, truthful I powerfully urge eligible residents not hold and use present for substance and electrical assistance,” said Mayor Joyce Craig. “The emergence successful location heating and electrical costs is simply a fiscal load for galore families successful our community. No 1 should person to take betwixt food, housing, and keeping warm.”

“With the existent summation successful vigor prices, SNHS is encouraging residents to interaction america to use for Fuel Assistance arsenic soon arsenic possible,” said Donnalee Lozeau, CEO of Southern New Hampshire Services. “Benefits are astatine an all-time precocious this year. The Fuel Assistance programme volition unfastened connected November 1st, nevertheless we are accepting applications now. Call 603-668-8010 oregon sojourn our website www.snhs.org contiguous for an application.”

Benefits scope from $304 to $3,024 and are based connected monthly household income and yearly heating costs. This programme is unfastened to eligible renters and homeowners, and benefits tin beryllium applied to the measure of electrical and state utility, arsenic good arsenic deliverable substance specified arsenic oil, kerosene, propane, wood oregon coal. Residents who whitethorn not beryllium eligible but who are experiencing fiscal hardship are inactive encouraged to telephone SNHS.

Residents down connected their electrical oregon state bills are besides recommended to use for a outgo program done their inferior supplier successful bid to debar work disconnection.

Utility lawsuit work telephone numbers:

Eversource: 844-273-7760

Liberty: 1-800-833-4200

Unitil: 1-888-301-7700

NH Electric Co-Op: 1-800-698-2007

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