IUB encouraging eligible Iowans to apply for winter heating assistance - iHeart

(Des Moines, IA) -- The Iowa Utilities Board is encouraging Iowans to use for wintertime heating assistance.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2022 wintertime fuels outlook, astir U.S. households volition wage much to vigor their homes this winter. The outlook estimates the summation volition beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic 28% for earthy state and 10% for energy compared to 2021.

IUB is reminding qualifying Iowans that fiscal heating assistance is disposable done the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services created LIHEAP to assistance low-income residents wage portion of their heating costs. IUB says much than 74,600 Iowa households received LIHEAP backing during the 2021 fiscal year.

Residents approved for the programme are protected by Iowa instrumentality from being disconnected from earthy state oregon electrical work from November 1st done April 1st. Homes with residents 60 years of property oregon older, disabled residents, and those successful situation of contiguous inferior disconnection tin apply now. Applications unfastened to the nationalist November 1st.

Eligibility for the programme is based connected a fig of factors, including household size and income, benignant of housing, and benignant of fuel.