HEATING & COOLING RELIEF SAVES LIVES
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a lifeline, but it’s in danger: You can help protect it.
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What is LIHEAP?
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides essential support to households struggling to pay their energy bills, especially as extreme weather increases due to the climate crisis.
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LIHEAP Saves Lives
LIHEAP is popular and it works! However, because of limited funding, the program runs out earlier each year due to overwhelming demand. With current threats to LIHEAP and temperature predictions showing a high likelihood of 2025 smashing all prior records of extreme heat in many cities, this funding is life or death.
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LIHEAP is in Danger
LIHEAP is already severely underfunded and with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally firing the entire office responsible for implementing the LIHEAP program, WE ACT and partners urgently advocate for full funding and staff restored.
LIHEAP HAS BROAD
BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT
LIHEAP is an essential, bi-partisan, and popular program. Over 74% of bi-partisan national voters and almost 90% of low-income people of color are in support of LIHEAP. In 2022, LIHEAP ensured energy service for 1.7 million homes, and restored service to almost 250,000 more.
Explore WE ACT’s polling data with Embold Research here.
“Access to these essential resources is not a privilege, but an undeniable right.”
—Caleb Smith, Resiliency Coordinator, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
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50%
American individuals, despite being
only 25% of the city’s population.
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6.2 Million
The removal of LIHEAP staff puts 6.2 million people at risk nationwide
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1.7 Million Homes
Take Action
WE ACT and partners are committed to advocating for our communities who face the greatest negative climate impacts, exploding energy costs, and continued disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards. We will continue to demand actions to reverse these burdens by ensuring this urgently needed, well-supported, bi-partisan program is fully staffed and adequately funded.