Assistance program
Weatherization Assistance for Low-Income Persons
$5.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Energy, Department of, Energy, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 81.042
- What it does
- To improve home energy efficiency for low-income families through the most cost-effective measures possible. The program’s additional objectives are: 1. To reduce fossil fuel emissions created as a result of activities within the jurisdictions of eligible entities; and 2. To reduce the total energy use of the eligible units while ensuring their health and safety.
- Who benefits
- All low-income households are eligible to receive weatherization assistance. A low-income household is one whose combined income falls at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty level determined by the Office of Management and Budget's poverty income guidelines or the basis on which Federal, State, or local cash assistance payments have been made. A State may also elect to make all homes eligible under the HHS Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) eligible for weatherization assistance and may use either 150 percent of poverty or 60 percent of State median income.
- Who applies
- States and Territories, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and, Native American tribal organizations (Navajo Nation, Northern Cheyenne, Intertribal Council of Arizona). In the event a State does not apply, a unit of general purpose local government, or community action agencies and/or other nonprofit agencies within that State becomes eligible to apply.
- Authorized by
- Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977
- Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA)
- Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT)
- National Energy Conservation and Production Act of 1978
- Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors and Science Act of 2022 (CHIPS)
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 2021
- Energy Policy Act of 1992
- Energy Conservation and Production Act of 1976
- Program site
- http://www.eere.energy.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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