Wisconsin State and Local Funds

• The State of Wisconsin under Wis. Stat. Chapter 49 directs General Assistance funds to households without assets or means of support to provide a minimum of life's necessities including the cost of home heating.
  
  
• State and local sales tax was suspended for LIHEAP eligible households for the costs of home heating to direct additional funds to those households to relieve the costs of home heating, over $8 million in 2006.
  
  
• Housing Cost Reduction Initiative Utility Payment Program. State funds are distributed for payment of uncollectible utility arrearages. Assistance is provided to households whose housing cost is more than 35 percent of their total income and who have exhausted other sources of assistance.
  
  
• On March 2, Wisconsin's Governor Doyle announced that the state legislature approved $6 million to help households with heating assistance. The legislation also extended the eligibility limit for assistance from 150 percent to 175 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
  

LEVERAGING

2006: $13.2 million
2005: $6.5 million
2004: $28,333 (Housing Cost Reduction Initiative)
2003: $15,592 (Foundation for Rural Housing, Inc)
2002: $12,965 (Housing Cost Reduction Initiative Utility Payment Program)
2001: $21.5 million
2000: $19,035 (Housing Cost Reduction Initiative Utility Payment Program)
1999: $22,313 (Housing Cost Reduction Initiative Utility Payment Program)
1998: $3.5 million
1997: $3.8 million
1996: $3.8 million
1995: $6.2 million (includes $900,000 PVE)
1994: $5.7 million
1993: $5.6 million
1992: $5.3 million

Page Last Updated: April 17, 2007