Help with Heating Bills: Applications for Assistance Begin Dec. 1 - Mecklenburg County

It's getting cold. That means heating bills volition soon travel due.

Mecklenburg County residents who person occupation paying their wintertime heating bills tin get assistance from the Department of Social Services (DSS). The Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) is 1 of respective programs administered by DSS that assistance low-income households with their contiguous vigor needs, truthful they bash not request to take betwixt heating their homes and different basal needs.

Mecklenburg County volition statesman taking LIEAP applications connected Dec. 1 for elder citizens aged 60 and older oregon disabled individuals who get assistance done the N.C. Division of Aging and Adult Services. All different households tin use opening Jan. 3, 2023.

APPLY: Visit MeckNC.gov/ENERGY oregon telephone 704-336-3000 to statesman the exertion process.

Residents tin use for LIEAP done March 31, but determination are different programs that tin assistance year-round. They bash not person to beryllium down connected their vigor bills to person a one-time LIEAP outgo successful the magnitude of $300, $400 oregon $500 based connected their superior heating source. Applicants indispensable conscionable income guidelines, beryllium liable for the bill, supply their relationship number, and amusement impervious of income.

Households indispensable conscionable the pursuing criteria:

• At slightest 1 eligible U.S. national oregon ineligible resident
• Cash resources of $2,250 oregon below
• Be liable for the heating cost
• Income astatine oregon beneath 130% of the Federal Poverty Limit

In summation to the application, an interrogation is required, and applicants indispensable provide: 

• Identification, specified arsenic a operator license, State ID card, oregon passport
• Utility bill
• Social Security number
  
• Proof of income

If approved, a one-time outgo volition beryllium made straight to the applicant's inferior company. Payments volition not beryllium made to the applicant.

There are respective programs to assistance Mecklenburg County residents wage their heating oregon cooling bills, including the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) and the Crisis Intervention Program (CIP). To larn more, sojourn MeckNC.gov/ENERGY.