Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

Background

Latest News

HNR: GOP Senate Budget Resolution Squeaks Through, 51-49; Floor Action Rejects Some of the Cuts in Human Needs Services (3/17/06)
HNR: House Passes Supplemental Spending Bill With Important Provisions for Gulf Coast, LIHEAP (3/17/06)
HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05)
HNR: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Must Clear One Last Hurdle (12/9/05)

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Policy Analyses and Research

Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program: Fuel for the Future (10/22/07)
CBPP: New Price Data Show Additional LIHEAP Funding Still Needed - Congressional Delay Endangers Poor Households (2/17/06)
FRAC: Heat and Eat - How Nutrition Programs Can Help Low-Income Families with High Heating Bills (11/27/05)
CHN: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Slashes Services for Low-Income People (11/17/05)
CBPP: Out in the Cold - How Much LIHEAP Funding Will be Needed to Protect Beneficiaries from Rising Energy Prices? (10/6/05)
National Energy Assistance Directors' Association: Annual Survey of How Low Income Families are Coping with Energy Bills (Press Release - 9/21/05)

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Government Resources

Summary and Status of Public Law 109-171 - formerly S. 1932/H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (signed into law 2/8/06)
Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
Letter from 102 Members of the House to appropriators requesting $1.276 billion in emergency LIHEAP funding (9/30/05)
Letter from 41 Senators to appropriators requesting $1.276 billion in emergency LIHEAP funding (9/20/05)

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