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State Programs / Directors' Toolkit

What You Can Find Under State Programs/Directors' Toolkit

State Low-Income Energy Profiles

The profiles present a capsule view of each state's key LIHEAP characteristics, as well as details of its non-federal low-income energy programs (state- and utility-funded, and charitable). The profiles differ from the state tables in this section, in that individual tables provide a state-by-state comparison of characteristics.

 AL | AK | AZ | AR | CA | CO | CT | DC | DE | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL
IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MD | MA | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NE | NV
NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR| PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX
UT | VT | VA | WA | WV | WI | WY



State Plans/Manuals

Administration

Tables:
LIHEAP administering agency and subcontracting agencies, program delivery, client outreach activities

Toolkit:
State Compliance with Government Performance and Results Act, ROMA information

LIHEAP outreach and enrollment strategies

Vendor agreements, summer fill information, tribal/state agreements, energy assistance client applications

Surveys, data management

LIHEAP Components

Tables:
Households by component, budgets by component, program duration, crisis program variations, cooling program variations

Toolkit:
Weatherization information

Client Eligibility

Tables:
Poverty Income Guidelines, assets tests, priority households, subsidized housing

Benefits

Tables:
Heating and crisis assistance benefits, cooling assistance benefits, heating assistance: criteria for varying benefits

Toolkit:
Benefit payment matrices

LIHEAP Clearinghouse Memorandum 440: Subsidized Housing And LIHEAP (May 2003)

LIHEAP Clearinghouse Memorandum: "Targeting LIHEAP Benefits: State Strategies Based on Household Income, Energy Burden and Heating Costs," (February 2002)

Client Self Sufficiency

Tables:
States use of Assurance 16, REACH historical funding, state REACH grants (1996 - 2006)

Toolkit:
Assurance 16 Services in FY1995 & FY 1996: Opportunities for Measuring the Results of LIHEAP Services  (May 1997)

Residential Energy Assistance: Effectiveness of Demonstration Program as Yet Undetermined, U.S. General Accounting Office, (August 2001)

REACH: background, program descriptions, program evaluations, program evaluations summaries

Leveraging

Tables:
Leveraging history, leveraging summaries and tables 1995-2005

Toolkit:
Leveraging Memorandums: Background, Statewide Coalitions Seek New  Approaches To Supplement Low-Income Energy Programs, Fuel Funds, Negotiations With Non-Regulated Fuel Vendors


Page Last Updated: October 1, 2008