HOW LIHEAP HELPS FAMILIES
In 2018, NEADA completed a survey of LIHEAP recipients through the National Energy Assistance Survey. The survey asked recent LIHEAP recipients in seven states selected for national representation how they fared prior to receiving LIHEAP grants. Of 624 respondents:
• 37 percent closed off part of their home to save utility costs;
• 25 percent kept the temperature inside unsafe or unhealthy;
• 52 percent of households had a disabled member, many of whom rely on electricity for breathing machines or to refrigerate medicines;
• 17 percent had to move in with friends or family and 6 percent went into shelters. Only 26 percent of LIHEAP respondents reported being unemployed part of a year, yet to try to meet their utility costs:
• 36 percent went without food for at least a day;
• 41 percent went without medical or dental care;
• 31 percent did not fill a prescription or took less than prescribed to stretch the supply.
These responses from LIHEAP recipients underline the agonizing choices faced by low-income households. The U. S. Energy Information Administration reported that 34 million U. S. households( 27 % of all households) had difficulty meeting their energy needs in 2020, with 25 million( 20 % of all households) foregoing food and medicine to pay for utilities.
LIHEAP’ s impact goes beyond providing bill payment assistance by playing a crucial role in maintaining family stability and improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations. It enables elderly citizens to live independently and ensures that young children have safe, warm homes to live in. Although the circumstances that lead each client to seek LIHEAP assistance are different, their stories are all connected through the programs’ ability to enable people to cope with difficult circumstances with dignity.
SENATORS DEMAND REINSTATEMENT OF LIHEAP WORKERS
WASHINGTON, April 11 – After President Donald Trump and Elon Musk arbitrarily fired every worker in the office that helps working class families with children and seniors on fixed incomes stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer, Sen. Bernie Sanders( I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions( HELP), alongside 30 Senate colleagues, today sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding that the administration reinstate those workers and ensure they can continue administering the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program( LIHEAP).
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