MDHS provides assistance to households affected by water crisis - WJTV

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In September 2022, the Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) issued $2,037,000 successful supplemental Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) payments to much than 1,600 households successful Hinds County. These households antecedently received LIHEAP benefits from January 1 done August 30, 2022.

MDHS officials said supplemental payments were intended to payment Hinds County households experiencing accrued fiscal unit related to the h2o situation earlier this Fall.

“With vigor costs forecast to mean 17% higher than the anterior year, MDHS provided this supplemental assistance to relieve further accent households acquisition owed to rising inferior costs.” said Robert G. (Bob) Anderson, enforcement manager of MDHS.

Payments totaling $1,250 were made straight to the client’s inferior work supplier and were based connected the superior heating root utilized by the residence. According to MDHS, each households eligible for the supplement received a announcement informing them that the supplemental outgo of $1,250 was paid connected their behalf to the household’s energy and state providers.

“I would similar to stock my appreciation to our Management Information Services (MIS) and Community Services (CS) teams for their speedy enactment to present overmuch needed assistance to Hinds County families,” stated Anderson.

LIHEAP is simply a national programme designed “to assistance low-income households, peculiarly those with the lowest incomes, that wage a precocious proportionality of household income for location energy, chiefly successful gathering their contiguous location vigor needs.” This assistance targets the costs of heating and cooling successful residential dwellings.

Mississippi households needing assistance with inferior and h2o bills are encouraged to use for services through www.access.ms.gov. Applicants indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 18 years of property oregon an emancipated minor.

Individuals without entree to a machine should telephone 1-800-421-0762 for assistance.