Supplemental propane assistance going to some West Virginia families - CBS Pittsburgh

Home heating costs acceptable to summation this wintertime

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Several 1000 West Virginia families volition person a supplemental outgo to assistance with propane heating expenses this winter.

An automatic outgo of $72 volition spell to residents who utilized propane for heating and who received a regular Low Income Energy Assistance Program outgo past winter, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said this week. Payments are expected to beryllium issued by Monday, the bureau said.

Funding for the payments comes from a $250,000 donation arsenic a effect of a people enactment settlement, DHHR said.

"DHHR is erstwhile again pleased to supply this peculiar propane heating assistance to 3,624 eligible families," DHHR Cabinet Secretary Bill J. Crouch said. "We anticipation that this further payment, enabled done a thoughtful donation, volition assistance these households offset rising heating expenses this winter."

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