Washington State Funds

• State general funds go to "Energy Matchmaker" program and are matched by local, utility and other funds. In FY 2006, over $3.5 million were used to weatherize 1,177 low-income homes.
  
  
• On January 12, the Governor signed a bill that allocated one-time funding of $7.6 million in emergency aid to low-income families. About 14,000 income-eligible families received an average of $350 towards their heating bills in 2006 through LIHEAP. The money came from a fine paid in April by Qwest Communications to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

Note: Leveraging reports do not always give a complete statewide picture. Some resources are not reported through leveraging or are under reported.

LEVERAGING

2006: $3.5 million
2005: $3.9 million
2004: $4.3 million
2003: $5.3 million
2002: $3.9 million
2001: $4 million
2000: $4.2 million
1999: $4.3 million
1998: $4 million
1997: $4.5 million
1996: $3.3 million
1995: $4.1 million

LEGISLATIVE CODE

1998, Revised Code of Washington, Title 70, Chapter 164 secs. 010-070

Page Last Updated: April 17, 2007