OSWEGO COUNTY — The 2025-2026 Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) is open for applications, the Oswego County Department of Social Services (DSS) announced. The DSS said it has been notified by the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The government-funded Home Energy Assistance Program (H.E.A.P.) has returned, just as the weather gets colder. Originally set to reopen at the start of November, the program was ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The Home Energy Assistance Program, or HEAP, which helps New Yorkers heat their homes during the cold winter months, has been restored following the government shutdown. The program ...

If you heat your home with electricity, natural gas, oil, coal, propane, wood or wood pellets, kerosene or corn, HEAP can help you heat and cool your home by providing up to $996 in benefits.

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10)– As we enter the cold months ahead, the state’s heating assistance program, or HEAP, remains paused. This leaves 1.5 million New Yorkers who rely on the program, without ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Winter chill has arrived in New York, but a heating assistance program is under threat due to federal funding. New York’s Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) is set to begin ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- The Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) confirmed to NewsChannel 13 that November SNAP benefits have been fully paid, and December benefits will be issued on ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — As Central New York braces for colder weather, just days after the first snowfall of the season, some families are already feeling the impact of the federal government shutdown, even ...

Thousands of upstate New Yorkers who rely on heating assistance are at risk of being left in the cold. The longest-ever federal shutdown froze funding for the federal Home Energy Assistance Program — ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Enrollment for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) which helps low-income individuals pay their winter heating bills, was supposed to open up this week but is currently on hold ...

BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The Home Energy Assistance Program, or ‘HEAP’, which helps people with utility costs during winter, was set to take effect today, but due to the ongoing government ...

As temperatures dip, Long Islanders who rely on assistance programs to help them meet rising costs to heat their homes are finding one critical federal source frozen out: the Home Energy Assistance ...