ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program are now open for New York, after the application period was pushed back by a month due to the federal government shutdown.

New York state officials expect to open this year’s Home Energy Assistance Program, or HEAP, as soon as the first week of December, after weeks of delays caused by the federal shutdown. The benefit ...

The federal government on Tuesday said it will release $3.7 billion in congressionally approved funding to restart a low-income heating assistance program that had been paused during the government ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- In the wake of the recent government shutdown, the federal government has yet to release critical funds for the nation’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Kathy Hochul is calling on President Donald Trump to release $400 million in federal funds for the Home Energy Assistance Program. Governor Hochul said 1.5 million New Yorkers ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) confirmed to NewsChannel 13 that November SNAP benefits have been fully paid, and December benefits will be issued on ...

The vast majority of roads across central New York this evening are completely snow-covered as heavy snowfall has pummled the region tonight. Winter storm warni SCSD Board of Education starts process ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio and the Ohio Department of Development are reminding older residents that help is available to manage home energy costs through the Winter ...

The annual application window typically opens in early November but will be “delayed indefinitely until the Trump Administration and Washington Republicans act to end the government shutdown and fund ...

Thousands of upstate New Yorkers who rely on heating assistance are at risk of being left in the cold. The longest-ever federal shutdown froze funding for the federal Home Energy Assistance Program — ...