“No family should be forced to choose between paying the heating bill and putting food on the table,” Senator Mikulski said. “Too many people are being stretched and stressed by high energy costs. This critical energy assistance for low income families will help those most in need care for themselves and their families as winter approaches.”
“LIHEAP is an indispensable lifeline for the most vulnerable among us. Seniors facing economic hardships and low-income families never should have to make grim choices over which basic necessities they can afford, and LIHEAP helps ensure that they never reach this point,” said Senator Cardin. “I want struggling Marylanders to know that they have strong federal partners to provide the assistance they need, and I appreciate the responsiveness of the Department of Health and Human Services to our requests that this funding be made available.”
In October, Senators Mikulski and Cardin along with 37 bipartisan Senate colleagues sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell requesting the funding be made available. That letter is available here.
Eligibility for LIHEAP is based on income, family size, and the availability of resources.
Why don't you guys just provide them with new industry so they can have jobs and a sense of self worth?
ReplyDeleteOh, you are Democratic Socialists, I forgot.
Pissing away my tax dollars on lazy bums that don't work, so great!
ReplyDeletePut everyone on some kind of work program. If nothing else drug test recipients.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I'll just work harder to pay my own bills.
ReplyDeleteProviding assistance increases the cost of energy for everyone else. Programs like this should be limited...$68 million!!! This will give many of these people more money to spend at the nail salon and with their drug dealers. Enough is enough!
ReplyDeleteGive a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, food stamps, a free cell phone, section 8 housing, a quart of colt 45, a crack pipe and some air jordans and he'll vote democrat the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteSorry but I work 60 hours a week and STILL struggle to provide everything for my family. This program has helped me out before. THANKS
ReplyDelete8:15,You are not the problem.
DeleteAnd I bet your home is nice and warm all winter. My winter temp is no higher than 62 and I wear a hat inside. But then again, I pay for my heat myself.
ReplyDelete9:51...I'm feeling you.
ReplyDeleteWe keep the thermostat down to 68 and wear a sweater.
Of course, if someone was already paying my mortgage, buying my groceries, and taking care of all the keeds I had but couldn't afford, well, I'd have that heat up to 75 degrees all day long.
But, ain't nobody paying MY bills or supporting me, other than ME.
Living off other's work and effort USED to be something one was ashamed of....
Not being able to support yourself USED to be something one was ashamed of...
Having a child out of wedlock USED to be something one was ashamed of...having three or four was UNHEARD of.....
Having a child who is arrested 2-3 times by the age of USED to be something one was ashamed of....
Not having a job as an adult USED to be shameful, too.
65 MILLION!? Is there ANYTHING that shames these people???
Keep cheering.