{"id":376063,"date":"2026-10-18T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376063\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:10:07","slug":"heap-applications-start-nov-2-amid-rising-electric-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376063\/","title":{"rendered":"HEAP applications start Nov. 2 amid rising electric bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State&#8217;s Home Energy Assistance Program, also known as HEAP, opens on November 2. This is a financial assistance program that aid neighbor with their heat bills. <\/p>\n<p>If your household does not automatically receive HEAP benefits, you can apply starting on November 2. Amounts of assistance vary depending on many factors, icluding income and houseold size.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Saturday that 1.5 million New Yorkers can receive this financial aid. <\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in applying, you can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/otda.ny.gov\/programs\/apply\/#heap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time where electric bills are high for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/national-grid-winter-bill-forecast-higher-electric-bills-slight-drop-in-gas-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">average household<\/a>. National Grid put out a winter bill outlook on Wednesday. It was forecasted that electric bills for the average Upstate New York customer will be increased anywhere from three to five percent for the five-month period.  This also depends which part of the start you live in.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a household that uses natural gas with 713 therms, is expected to pay nine dollars less throughout this upcoming winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State&#8217;s Home Energy Assistance Program, also known as HEAP, opens on November 2. This is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-376063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376063","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=376063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}