{"id":255774,"date":"2026-07-30T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:43:09","slug":"pennsylvania-offers-100-energy-bill-assistance-for-low-income-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255774\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania offers $100 energy bill assistance for low-income households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania offers $100 energy bill assistance for low-income households<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Pennsylvania&#8217;s Department of Human Services is offering a one-time $100 payment to assist eligible low-income households with rising energy costs.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The payment is available to homes that receive support from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and have at least one family member who is a child six years old or younger, is age 60 or older, or has a disability.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Shapiro administration said the supplemental payment will be distributed directly to the household&#8217;s utility provider and automatically applied to an outstanding heating or current energy bill.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">LIHEAP is a 100% federally funded program, and this additional payment is made possible by remaining funds from the 2025\u20132026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania offers $100 energy bill assistance for low-income households Pennsylvania&#8217;s Department of Human Services is offering a one-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108907,7005,4613,108909,9142,9143,108910,28,30,29,108908,8991],"class_list":["post-255774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-100-payment","tag-department-of-human-services","tag-dhs","tag-energy-bill","tag-liheap","tag-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program","tag-low-income-households","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvanias-department-of-human-services","tag-shapiro-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255774","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=255774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}