Urgent! Claim Your $900 Emergency Stimulus Payment for Energy Costs – Here’s How

The benefits of the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) allow New Yorkers to receive federal assistance each year to help with their heating and cooling expenses.

This program assists low-income households with heating expenses, including fuel, utility bills, and even the replacement of heating equipment, between October and March.

If you are in an emergency involving heat, you may be able to heat your home with the help of the emergency HEAP benefit, if you qualify.

Benefits and eligibility for emergency HEAP are determined by: Accessible resources for login kind of crisis.

Who is eligible to receive the energy costs benefit?

If your power is required to operate your thermostat or heating system and is turned off or set to be turned off, you can qualify for an emergency HEAP payment.

You have turned off or are about to turn off your natural gas or electric heating. You have not had enough wood, wood pellets, maize, or any other supplyable heat source for more than ten days, or you have run out of fuel or have less than a quarter tank of fuel oil, kerosene, or propane.

The HEAP benefit application period is open from November 1 through March 2025. The principal heating source, household size, and income determine eligibility and benefits.

HEAP benefit amounts

The following are the 2024–2025 HEAP benefit amounts for emergency heating and heating: $185 for domestic heating (electrical service needed to run heating equipment).

Just $400 for natural gas heating.

$585 for natural gas plus associated home heating.

$585 was related to both domestic heating and electric heating.

Fuel for non-public heating (coal, corn, pellets, wood, etc.) $635.

$900 for non-public heating fuel (propane, kerosene, and oil).