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Details for Service Emergency Energy Assistance
Service Name Emergency Energy Assistance Program Name Families with Identified Needs
Goal Provide services and supports to individuals and families experiencing health and safety needs to assist them in living successfully in the community.
Objective Assure that families who are experiencing economic jeopardy receive emergency assistance services to mitigate health and safety risks.
Division Division of Social Services
Service Description

Crisis Intervention Program is part of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Block Grant and is an important service for all, but especially for families with elderly, disabled or a young children under 6 years old who are especially at risk for life threatening or health related emergency if their home is too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer. Applicants apply for CIP funds to alleviate a heating or cooling  related crisis. Benefits may vary based upon the amount needed to alleviate the crisis; however, benefits cannot exceed $600 per State fiscal year. The  maximum allowed benefit amount can be up to $600 per application, per crisis situation.

 

Below are Private Community Funded Energy Assistance Programs that are operated through local departments of social services with funds provided by the customers and employees of Progress Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Wake Electric Membership Corporation and Haywood Electric Membership Corporation to provide low income energy assistance to their customers. Funding amounts are defined by the energy provider and eligibility guidelines generally follow the Crisis Intervention Program. Help can be for heating or cooling expenses with the exception of Piedmont's program which is just for heating assistance. These programs are administered through the NC FAST:

 

 

-Share the Light is 100% funded by Progress Energy customers and employees to provide energy assistance to low income customers in the service area. Applications are taken by the local department of social services. Counties spend the funds until exhausted; any remaining funds are reallocated to the same county for the new SFY.

 

-Helping Each Member Cope is 100% funded by rounding up the bill to the nearest dollar for participating customers of Haywood Electric Membership Corporation to assist low income customers with energy bills. Counties spend until funds are exhausted; any remaining funds at the end of the SFY are reallocated to the same county.

 

-Share the Warmth is 100% funded by Piedmont Natural Gas Company employees and customers. Allocations are made to counties with gas company customers to assist with heating bills. Counties spend the funds until exhausted; any funds remaining at the end of the SFY are reallocated to the same county the following year.

 

-Wake Electric Roundup is 100% funded by Wake Electric Membership Corporation participating customers by rounding up their bills to the next dollar to provide energy assistance to low income customers. Allocations are made to counties based on the number of residential customers in the area. Counties spend until the funds are exhausted; any remaining funds at the end of the SFY are reallocated to the same county in the following SFY.

 

 

Web Site https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/social-services/energy-assistance Year First Initiated 1982
Available State Wide Yes Geographic Area Served
Grants Provided No Competitive Bidding No
Competitive Bidding Details
Waiting List No Waiting List Start Date
Number Waiting
Waiting List Details

Income Eligibility
Income Eligibility Yes
Income Eligibility Method The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who is in poverty. Thresholds are updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index. Poverty guidelines are updated periodically in the "Federal Registry" by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2).
Income Eligibility Type Most earned and unearned income
Whose Income Eligibility "A household must meet the following requirements to be eligible for the Crisis Intervention Program: (1) Income: A household must have income at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty income guidelines. The rules in 10A NCAC 71V .0103 will govern for the definition and computation of income. (2) Crisis: A household must be in a heating or cooling related crisis. A household is in a crisis if it is experiencing or is in danger of experiencing a life threatening or health-related emergency and sufficient, timely and appropriate assistance is not available from any other source. (3) Citizenship: Individuals who are illegal aliens are not eligible for the Crisis intervention Program.
Income Disregard Yes
Income Disregard Desc In kind benefits, vendor payments, some educatin assistance and reimbursements are examples of income that is disregarded.
Income Verified Yes
Income Verified Method Written, verbal and online verification from income source(s)
Income Criteria Poverty guidelines are updated periodically in the "Federal Registry" by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2).
Income Eligibility Change 7/1/2010
Income Eligibility Method Prior To Change N/A
Income Eligibility Other

Target Population
Age Range Start Age Range End
0 100+

Legal Authority
Authorization Level Authorization Type Citation
State Administrative Rules 10A NCAC 70 R, V, and W
Federal Public Law Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, as amended; The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109-58.
State Statute 108A-25

Budget Information
State Fiscal Year (SFY)
As of the month of
Authorized Budget Fiscal Year 2024 SFY 2023-2024 Year To Date Expenditures Balance
Salary and Fringes (1X) 0 0 0
Salary Other (1X) 0 0 0
Operating (2X-5X) 0 0 0
Contracts/Allocations (6X) 0 0 0
Reserves (7X) 0 0 0
Transfers (8X) 0 0 0
Total Requirements 0 0 0
Receipts-Federal 0 0 0
Receipts- Local receipts 0 0 0
Receipts- Other receipts 0 0 0
Total Receipts 0 0 0
General Fund Appropriations 0 0 0
Match
State Local Other
0 0 0
 
MOE
State Local
0 0
 
FTEs
0.00