Families in western Kentucky that are worried about heating their homes this winter can start applying for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP.
West Kentucky Allied Services, Inc. started accepting applications from families whose last name begin with 'A' Wednesday. Families with surnames beginning with 'B' will begin Thursday, and so on from there.
Tony Dowdy is the assistant Director for Kentucky Allied Services, he says the program has a budget of $500,000.
"The first component, the subsidy component, it ends on December 11th," said Dowdy. "And then the crisis portion of the program begins on January 11th."
Dowdy says crisis funds won’t be awarded until the beginning of next year. He says the application process is slow and advises families to be patient.
The full schedule of application times are below:
- Nov. 4 A
- Nov. 5 B
- Nov. 6 B
- Nov. 9 C
- Nov. 10 C
- Nov. 11 Veteran’s Day
- Nov. 12 D, E
- Nov. 13 F
- Nov. 16 G
- Nov. 17 H
- Nov. 18 H
- Nov. 19 I, J
- Nov. 20 K
- Nov. 23 L
- Nov. 24 M
- Nov. 25 Staff Day
- Nov. 26 Closed
- Nov. 27 Closed
- Nov. 30 M
- Dec. 1 N
- Dec. 2 O, P
- Dec. 7 S
- Dec. 8 T
- Dec. 9 U, V, W
- Dec. 10 X,Y, Z
- Dec. 11 open
