{"id":302478,"date":"2026-10-08T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302478\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:50:14","slug":"home-energy-assistance-program-applications-will-be-accepted-in-erie-county-starting-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302478\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Energy Assistance Program applications will be accepted in Erie County starting next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for Home Energy Assistance Program (\u201cHEAP\u201d) regular benefits will be accepted beginning Monday, Nov. 2. The Erie County Department of Social Services is strongly encouraging applicants to apply online or to utilize remote channels to apply. As in previous years, interested applicants are encouraged to apply sooner rather than later.<br \/>\u201cEnergy costs remain high, and we expect a busy HEAP season. We are urging residents with heat service currently on and without a shut-off notice to fil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applications for Home Energy Assistance Program (\u201cHEAP\u201d) regular benefits will be accepted beginning Monday, Nov. 2. The Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-302478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302478","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=302478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}