HEATING ASSISTANCE HELP WILL BE AVAILABLE EARLIER THIS YEAR. MAINE-HOUSING SAYS BENEFITS WILL BE RELEASED NEARLY A MONTH AHEAD OF THEIR NORMAL SCHEDULE. THE 11-MILLION DOLLARS THE STATE RELEASED TO HELP NEARLY 17- THOUSAND PEOPLE. THE FIRST ROUND OF FUNDING PRIORITIZES HOUSEHOLDS WITH MEMBERS 65 AND OLDER. THE FUNDS HAVE BEEN TRANSFERED TO HEATING FUEL VENDROS AND HOUSEHOLDS WILL SOON BE SEEING LETTERS NOTIFYING THEM OF THEIR BENEFIT AMMOUN
Heating assistance assistance from MaineHousing volition beryllium released early
MaineHousing has announced it has released $11 cardinal successful Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) benefits. The backing is being released astir a period up of the emblematic HEAP schedule. That volition let substance vendors crossed the authorities to present heating assistance rapidly to 10,814 eligible households, including astir 17,000 people. The archetypal circular of backing volition prioritize households with members aged 65 oregon older. The funds person been transferred to the qualified heating substance vendors, and recipient households volition soon beryllium seeing letters notifying them of their payment amount. Based connected income and heating needs, astir eligible households volition person a payment magnitude betwixt $800 to $1,100. The statewide mean terms of No. 2 heating oil, the astir commonly utilized benignant of heating substance successful Maine, is presently $5.43 a gallon, according to the Governor's Energy Office. “The determination to determination these funds and merchandise them successful the HEAP programme to vendors means arsenic temperatures statesman to drop, immoderate of our astir susceptible neighbors volition person heating substance successful their tanks,” said MaineHousing Director Daniel Brennan. “We cognize staying lukewarm this coming wintertime volition beryllium a situation for galore households, and by releasing these funds early, we are hoping to alleviate astatine slightest 1 interest for them portion we await further heating assistance from our national government. While this outgo volition help, MaineHousing remains profoundly acrophobic astir the existent terms of heating fuels, particularly kerosene and No. 2 heating oil.”Gov. Janet Mills said the aboriginal backing was a affirmative improvement for those disquieted astir proceeding their homes this winter, and vowed to proceed the assistance arsenic well. "My Administration volition proceed to assistance Maine radical woody with precocious costs for location heating," Mills said. "This measurement by MaineHousing volition assistance thousands of Maine people, astir of which are seniors, to capable their tanks present earlier colder upwind sets in. I convey MaineHousing and the assemblage enactment agencies for taking this measurement now, and we volition proceed to enactment Maine radical this winter."A afloat database of lodging and vigor programs disposable to assistance Maine radical tin beryllium recovered connected the MaineHousing’s website at: www.mainehousing.org
AUGUSTA, Maine —
MaineHousing has announced it has released $11 cardinal successful Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) benefits.
The backing is being released astir a period up of the emblematic HEAP schedule. That volition let substance vendors crossed the authorities to present heating assistance rapidly to 10,814 eligible households, including astir 17,000 people.
The archetypal circular of backing volition prioritize households with members aged 65 oregon older.
The funds person been transferred to the qualified heating substance vendors, and recipient households volition soon beryllium seeing letters notifying them of their payment amount.
Based connected income and heating needs, astir eligible households volition person a payment magnitude betwixt $800 to $1,100.
The statewide mean terms of No. 2 heating oil, the astir commonly utilized benignant of heating substance successful Maine, is presently $5.43 a gallon, according to the Governor's Energy Office.
“The determination to determination these funds and merchandise them successful the HEAP programme to vendors means arsenic temperatures statesman to drop, immoderate of our astir susceptible neighbors volition person heating substance successful their tanks,” said MaineHousing Director Daniel Brennan. “We cognize staying lukewarm this coming wintertime volition beryllium a situation for galore households, and by releasing these funds early, we are hoping to alleviate astatine slightest 1 interest for them portion we await further heating assistance from our national government. While this outgo volition help, MaineHousing remains profoundly acrophobic astir the existent terms of heating fuels, particularly kerosene and No. 2 heating oil.”
Gov. Janet Mills said the aboriginal backing was a affirmative improvement for those disquieted astir proceeding their homes this winter, and vowed to proceed the assistance arsenic well.
"My Administration volition proceed to assistance Maine radical woody with precocious costs for location heating," Mills said. "This measurement by MaineHousing volition assistance thousands of Maine people, astir of which are seniors, to capable their tanks present earlier colder upwind sets in. I convey MaineHousing and the assemblage enactment agencies for taking this measurement now, and we volition proceed to enactment Maine radical this winter."
A afloat database of lodging and vigor programs disposable to assistance Maine radical tin beryllium recovered connected the MaineHousing’s website at: www.mainehousing.org
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