MONTICELLO – The emergency component of the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) opens on Monday, January 4. Persons who have already received a regular HEAP benefit for the 2015-16 HEAP season may be eligible for another benefit under the emergency component of the program. Regular component benefits must be exhausted first to be eligible for the heating emergencies component for eligible households.
Emergency benefits are available to assist eligible households in resolving heating, heat-related electric and energy-related temporary housing emergencies. An applicant must be in an emergency situation.
Monthly income eligibility is up to $2,244 for a household of one is increased by $690 for each additional member of the household.
To be eligible for an emergency HEAP benefit, the applicant must be the customer of record, meet the monthly income eligibility, not have available liquid resources greater than $2,000 or $3,000 if they household contains an individual age 60 or older, and meet all other non-financial requirements.
