(Undated)– November 1st the state’s moratorium on utility disconnects began. It’s also the date families who qualify for energy assistance could sign up. Now, two weeks later there’s only partial funding for the program…1.7 billion dollars authorized by Congress in September as part of a temporary spending measure. The Iowa Director of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, commonly called LIHEAP, is Jerry McKim…Click here to hear mp3 file
McKim expects it will be next month at least before families who have signed up for LIHEAP see some relief…Click here to hear mp3 file
Last winter, more than 95,000 households received held with those bills through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. McKim expects that many, or more, to apply this winter.
(From the Iowa News Service).
