{"id":199573,"date":"2026-04-16T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199573\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:59:09","slug":"applications-for-new-york-state-cooling-assistance-benefit-program-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199573\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications for New York State Cooling Assistance Benefit program now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WBNG) &#8212; Applications for the New York State Cooling Assistance Benefit program are now open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The program helps income-eligible households buy and install air conditioners or fans to help cool their homes during the warm summer months. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooling assistance funds are limited and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eligibility criteria include, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>Your Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, Temporary Assistance (TA), or Code A Supplemental Security Income (SSI Living Alone)Your household contains at least one individual with a documented medical condition that is exacerbated by extreme heatYour household contains a vulnerable member based on their age (60 years or older, or under age 6) who meets all other component eligibility criteriaYou currently do not have a working air conditioner or the air conditioner you have is five years old or older, andYou did not receive a HEAP-funded air conditioner within the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For full eligibility requirements and more information, visit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny.gov\/services\/apply-cooling-assistance \" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ny.gov\/services\/apply-cooling-assistance \"> New York State\u2019s website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WBNG) &#8212; Applications for the New York State Cooling Assistance Benefit program are now open. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-199573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}