Applications for New York’s Heating Assistance Program open on Wednesday, November 1.
If you heat your home with electricity, natural gas, oil, coal, propane, wood or wood pellets, kerosene or corn, the Home Energy Assistance Program can help you heat and cool your home by providing up to $900 in benefits.
Emergency HEAP can help you heat your home if you are in a heat or heat-related emergency. The benefits are based on your income, available resources and the type of emergency. Applications for this program open Jan. 2, 2024.
New York State has been awarded $360,015,351 in federal funding for the program.
The money will help thousands of households across the state afford their heating bills and make cost-effective home energy repairs this winter.
Eligibility and benefits depend on a person’s income, household size, primary heating source and if there’s a member of your household who is under age 6, over age 60 or permanently disabled.
You may be eligible if:
– A member of your household is a U.S. citizen or qualified non-citizen
– Your household’s gross monthly income is at or below the current income guides for your household size. For example, a family of four must make at or below $5,838 to qualify.
– You receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits
– You receive Temporary Assistance (TA)
– You receive Code A Supplemental Security Income (SSI Living Alone)
To apply, visit myBenefits.ny.gov. All New York State households can also apply in person at their HEAP Local District Contact, or in writing by mailing a completed application to their HEAP Local District Contact.
Granite heap is a good program but it doesn’t help single people like me I live on a one income and I do my best to afford everything but I see people that sit on their butt all day long that are capable to of working and get everything handed to them on a platter I don’t qualify for heat I don’t qualify for food stamps I’m a single person I’m 62 years old I work 40 hours a week I still don’t get help because you go by my gross my gross income is not what I live on if you would use my net pay exactly what I bring home each week then I do qualify for heap I don’t see why my gross income when I don’t bring home that gross home i pay taxes I pay for health insurance I pay for my 401k but yet I get penalized cuz of my gross pay and then when I file my income tax for my tax returns again I get penalized I have to pay in to federal and state when people that sit home collect welfare and get all that for nothing to get an increase in their food stamps and increase in her heat and increased in her income just for sitting home the working class that I’m in should have that extra help too so I think you should read think the heat program for the working class people too cuz they can use a lot of help just as much as the ones that don’t work thank you for reading my email