Gateway Community Action Partnership announces the deadline to apply for Low

Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) is April 30 and deadline to apply for Emergency

Assistance natural gas, electric, oil, propane and other deliverable fuels will also end April 30.

  Only eligible LIHEAP recipients (issued or pending a HEA benefit) can apply for Emergency

Assistance. They must provide an actual shut off notice with an amount that would prevent

the disconnection of service from the utility company. Renters, as defined by LIHEAP, are

not eligible to receive any type of Emergency Assistance.Note that renters as defined by

LIHEAP are Households who pay for their heating included in non-subsidized rent, therefore

not eligible to receive EA. Anyone who rents a unit and pays for full heating costs is eligible

to receive HEA and therefore emergency assistance.

  Renters who live in public subsidized housing with heating costs included in the rent are

not eligible to receive HEA or any emergency assistance. The maximum amount of Emergency

Assistance for natural gas, electric, oil, propane and other deliverable fuels is a one-time

assistance of up to $450.  The maximum amount of Emergency Assistance to prevent

disconnection on non heating electric accounts continues to be up to $200.

  Agencies will grant the maximum emergency assistance benefit amount when the shut off

notice indicates that an amount over $450 is needed to prevent service disconnection. The

maximum amount of EA will be approved only when and if the agency receives assurance

from the utility company that the said maximum EA amount will prevent a service

disconnection.

To apply for LIHEAP, USF, Cooling Assistance or Weatherization please contact your local

Gateway Community Action Partnership:

Office hours are as follows for walk-in applicants: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9 a.m.

to 3:30 p.m.

Cumberland County                                     Gloucester County                              Salem County

110 Cohansey Street                                   901 N. Delaware Street                   14 New Market Street

Bridgeton, NJ  08302                                   Paulsboro, NJ  08066                        Salem, NJ  08079

856-451-6330                                                856-423-0040                                    856-935-0944

We have a new satellite office for Vineland residences ONLY located at the

Cumberland County One Stop Career Center

275 N. Delsea Drive

Vineland, NJ  08360

856-696-5660 ext. 222

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LOW INCOME HOME ENERGEY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LIHEAP) / WEATHERIZATION