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ADDITIONAL $ 1 BILLION FOR LIHEAP
The U . S . Department of Health and Human Services , Administration for Children and Families , Office of Community Services , Division of Energy Assistance , announced the release of $ 1 billion in funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program ( LIHEAP ) for Federal Fiscal Year 2023 . Congress appropriated these funds under the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act , 2023 , which Congress included with the Consolidated Appropriations Act , 2023 ( FFY 2023 CAA ) ( Public Law 117-328 ). The latter provided the final budget for FFY 2023 , and the President signed it into law on December 29 , 2022 .
HHS and OMB have been working through some accounting issues related to how Congress appropriated the funding in the final budget compared to the temporary budget ( Continuing Resolution ). HHS worked to find the most efficient and expedient way to release funding while minimizing the reporting burden to the grant recipient to the greatest extent possible , it said in the Feb . 22 announcement . Here is more from the announcement :
We have determined that releasing the $ 1 billion supplemental funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act ( CAA ), separate from the rest of the regular funding , is the most prudent course of action to ensure grant recipients have funding during this winter heating season .
[ This ] supplemental LIHEAP funding is separate and distinct from the prior two supplemental LIHEAP funding releases in FFY 2023 — the $ 100 million in supplemental funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ( Public Law 117-58 ) and the $ 1 billion in supplemental funds from the Continuing Appropriations Act ( Continuing Resolution ), 2023 ( Public Law 117-180 ) were released on November 4 , 2022 .
The individual grant recipient funding allocations for each supplemental award may be different , even if the nationwide supplemental amounts are the same .
Due to the legislative directions , typically all LIHEAP funding is calculated together within the same federal fiscal year ; no funding is calculated in isolation . When we receive supplemental funding , HHS adds the supplemental funding to the funds we have already received during the year , and we rerun all of the funding through the LIHEAP funding formula to obtain an allocation that is based off the total amount of funding received .
In FFY 2023 , we calculated $ 1 billion in CR supplemental funds , by adding it on top of the $ 3.8 billion in regular block grant funding that was appropriated through the Continuing Resolution at the beginning of the fiscal year . Likewise , this new $ 1 billion … was added to the rest of the $ 5.1 billion funding appropriated by Congress ( regular funds , prior $ 1B supplemental , and $ 100M IIJA ).
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