Congress plans to slash funding to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program by reportedly more than $1 billion. What this will mean is that federal home heating assistance for the poor and elderly will be dramatically cut. This can be alarming news to people who rely on this program especially during the cold winters....
Read more …Congress plans to slash funding to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program by reportedly more than $1 billion. What this will mean is that federal home heating assistance for the poor and elderly will be dramatically cut. This can be alarming news to people who rely on this program especially during the cold winters.
In an article in the Associated Press, a 92-year-old woman living in a trailer in Boston whose heating aid will fall from $1,035 to $685 this year was quoted as saying: “I will just have to crawl into bed with the covers over me and stay there,” said Mary Power. “I will do what I have to do.”
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