New Jersey Low Income Energy Assistance Program LIHEAP

Very low-income residents in New Jersey can get assistance with heating and cooling bills from Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP). Programs can provide cash grants to pay bills or prevent disconnections, as well as make provisions can provide assistance for various heating system services such as repairs. In addition, emergency fuel assistance can also be paid out within the Home Energy Assistance Program.

Low Income Home Energy Assistance and Universal Service Fund – These two New Jersey programs were created by the state and federal government to help low-income families and individuals meet home heating bills, utility expenses and medically necessary cooling costs.

LIHEAP applications are processed in New Jersey by the community action agency in your area. See details below. For persons who are disabled, or who are age 60 or over, applications may be received and returned by mail. Others need to call and stop by a local agency.

Program requirements can change from year to year. In general, in order to be eligible for New Jersey LIHEAP benefits, the applying household needs to be responsible for paying their heating or utility bills. They need to pay the costs directly, or the amount can even be included in their monthly rent. Income limits apply, and the household needs to have total gross income at or below 200% of the federal government poverty level. However those limits can change in certain years. Persons who receive rental assistance or live in New Jersey public housing are not eligible for LIHEAP unless they pay for their own heating/cooling costs directly to the fuel supplier.

The total amount of aid paid out will vary by year as well. The exact amount paid out to a household will vary and is set by many factors, including fuel type, household size, income, and the heating region and part of the state.

 

 

 

 

If you apply, and are found to be eligible, a household that heats with electricity or natural gas may have its cash benefits or grants directly forwarded to its utility company. Otherwise, in most cases qualified households will be directly responsible to a fuel supplier for payment of their utility bill or home heating costs.

Those New Jersey households whose heating bills are included in their non-subsidized rent will be able to receive a single party check made out to the eligible applicant. A household who receives the LIHEAP medically necessary cooling bill assistance will not get a grant, but they will receive a credit to their active electric account.

Atlantic Human Resources, Inc. serves both Atlantic and Cape May.
One S. New York Avenue, Suite 303
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Telephone: (609) 348-4131

Bayonne Economic Opportunity Partnership
555 Kennedy Boulevard
Bayonne, NJ 07002
Telephone number is (201) 437-7222

Bergen County Community Action Partnership, Inc.
241 Moore Street
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Telephone: (201) 342-5189

Burlington County Community Action Program
718 Route 130 South
Burlington, NJ 08016
Dial - (609) 386-5800

Camden County Council on Economic Opportunity
538 Broadway
Camden, NJ 08103
Main number is (856) 964-6887

Cape Human Resources
Whitesboro, NJ 08252
Main telephone: (609) 465-4531

Check-Mate, Inc.
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Telephone number (732) 774-3100
Counties: Monmouth

East Orange Community Development Corporation covers McLennan
490 Main Street
East Orange, NJ 07018
Telephone :(973) 266-5315

Essex County Division of Community Action
50 S. Clinton Street, Suite 3201
East Orange, NJ 07018
Telephone :(973) 395-8350
Essex except City of Newark

Gateway Community Action Partnership
110 Cohansey Street
Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Telephone: (856) 451-6330
Counties are Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem

HOPES CAP, Inc.
124 Grand Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Call (201) 795-1576
This agency offers LIHEAP in City of Hoboken in Hudson County

Jersey City Division of Community Development
30 Montgomery Street, Room 402
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Telephone number (201) 547-6910

Mercer County Division of Community Services
640 South Broad Street
Trenton, NJ 08650-0068
Main telephone: (609) 989-6858

North Hudson Community Action Corporation
800 31st Street
Union City, NJ 07087-2622
Call (201) 866-8038
Counties supported include Hudson County Municipalities of: East Newark, Guttenberg, Harrison, Kearney, North Bergen, Secaucus, Union City, Weehawken, West New York

 

 

NORWESCAP – Provides services in Hunterdon, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Warren
350 Marshall Street
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
Telephone:(908) 454-7000

O.C.E.A.N., Inc.
40 Washington Street
Toms River, NJ 08753-1029
Main telephone is (732) 244-5333

Passaic County Human Services
401 Grand Street - Room 417
Paterson, NJ 07505
Telephone number (973) 881-4278

Paterson Task Force for Community Action, Inc.
9 Colt Street
Paterson, NJ 07505
Telephone number (973) 279-2333

Plainfield Action Services
510 Watchung Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060
Call (908) 753-3517

Somerset Community Action Program
900 Hamilton Street
Somerset, NJ 08873
Telephone:(732) 846-8888

Union County Department of Human Services
10 Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Main telephone - (908) 558-2290

Union Township Community Action Organization
2410 Springfield Avenue
Vauxhall, NJ 07088
Primary telephone - (908) 686-6150

United Community Corporation
31 Fulton Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Telephone number - (973) 642-0181

United Passaic Organization
41 Myrtle Avenue
Passaic, NJ 07055
Telephone number is (973) 472-2478

United Progress, Inc. - City of Trenton in Mercer County
162 W. State Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
Telephone number - (609) 392-2161