West Virginia offering utility assistance this winter - WBOY.com

(WTRF) – Residents successful West Virginia tin get assistance for utilities this wintertime season.

Homeowners who conscionable income qualifications and tin show a pandemic-related hardship are encouraged to use for assistance with their past-due lodging costs done the West Virginia Homeowners Rescue Program.

“Many West Virginia homeowners who person struggled financially due to the fact that of the pandemic have
been forced to marque hard decisions, including not paying their inferior bills truthful they could
make their monthly owe payments,” said Erica Boggess, Executive Director of the West
Virginia Housing Development Fund, which administers the Homeowners Rescue Program.

“Our programme tin wage those past-due bills and guarantee West Virginians support their homes, arsenic well
as their electrical oregon state heat, passim the winter.”

The West Virginia Homeowners Rescue Program launched successful March 2022 to link eligible
homeowners with national COVID alleviation funds to assistance them support lodging stability. Those
who ain their homes and bash not person a owe whitethorn inactive suffice for assistance with other
expenses, including utilities. To date, West Virginia Homeowners Rescue has paid $8.2 million
to astir 3,100 applicants crossed the state.

“Many West Virginians are inactive feeling the effects of the pandemic, particularly successful their wallets,”
Boggess said. “Any homeowner who is adjacent a period down successful their utilities should use for
tax-free assistance truthful we tin drawback them up connected those bills earlier wintertime comes.”

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