{"id":57358,"date":"2025-12-01T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57358\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:22:21","slug":"new-yorkers-can-now-apply-for-heap-benefits-focus-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57358\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers Can Now Apply for HEAP Benefits | Focus Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) — New Yorkers can now apply for heating assistance through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) to help manage winter heating costs.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that eligible households could receive up to $996, depending on their heating method.<\/p>\n

The program’s opening was delayed due to the 43-day federal government shutdown, according to the governor’s office.<\/p>\n

The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance oversees HEAP.<\/p>\n

“Many households automatically receive a HEAP payment due to their enrollment in other programs. OTDA prepared those automatic payments ahead of time, and these households can now be assured that a HEAP payment will soon be made to their heat supplier without needing to apply or take any additional action,” according to the governor’s office.<\/p>\n

Assistance is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and households can apply online<\/a>, by mail or in person at local social services departments.<\/p>\n

The program currently serves about one million households, with an estimated 1.5 million more eligible.<\/p>\n

Click here for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n

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New Yorkers can now apply for heating assistance through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) to help manage winter heating costs.<\/p>\n


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More than 8.2 million checks have been mailed to eligible New Yorkers as part of the State’s Inflation Refund Check program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) — New Yorkers can now apply for heating assistance through the Home Energy Assistance Program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30990,3990,30989,1984,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-57358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-apply","tag-heap","tag-heap-benefits","tag-hochul","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\/57358","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=57358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}