Proposal shortens heating aid program, By Elwin Green, August 25, 2009, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “A federally-funded program that assists homeowners with their heating bills will run for a shorter period of time this winter, reducing the availability of benefits by six weeks, according to a proposal by the state agency that administers the program. The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or Liheap, administered by the Department of Public Welfare, offers two types of assistance: the cash component and the crisis component. In years past, both were available from early November through the end of March…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty