{"id":12168,"date":"2025-10-23T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12168\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:54:07","slug":"pennsylvania-delays-start-of-liheap-due-to-lack-of-funding-during-federal-government-shutdown-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/12168\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania delays start of LIHEAP due to lack of funding during federal government shutdown | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 The federal government shutdown is delaying the start of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.<\/p>\n<p>LIHEAP is a federally funded program that helps lower-income Pennsylvanians heat their homes during the winter.<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Human Services says it has not yet received funding for the season, so it&#8217;s pushing the start of the program back one month to Dec. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the federal government does not reopen or funding is not released to states, Pennsylvania will be unable to begin the normal LIHEAP season until funding is received, DHS said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/services\/dhs\/apply-for-the-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program-liheap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">notice on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It directs anyone who needs immediate heating help to call 211 or visit\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/pa-navigate.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/pa-navigate.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pa-navigate.org\/<\/a>.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 The federal government shutdown is delaying the start of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9142,9143,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-12168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-liheap","tag-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}