New Jersey renters behind on their housing payments can still apply to the state’s Emergency Rental Assistance lottery program, which provides recipients with six months to one year’s worth of rent.
Since the application period opened in late March, the Department of Community Affairs has received 74,247 applications. From that pool, the state expects to choose 20,000 applications for the lottery by the end of this week. So far, 296 families have received rental assistance grants from the state this round, getting about $3 million of the $353 million allocated, the agency said.
The application program will remain open until all the money is used; the state originally estimated that it would cover 30,000 households using the December 2020 federal stimulus funds. But New Jersey now expects to collect an additional $272 million at a minimum from the American Rescue Plan, signed by President Joe Biden in March.
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Required fields Elizabethtown Gas Encourages Customers to Take Full Advantage of Energy Assistance Programs Investors > Newsroom > Elizabethtown Gas News
UNION, N.J., May 10, 2021 - Elizabethtown Gas, a subsidiary of South Jersey Industries (NYSE: SJI), encourages its customers to take full advantage of available energy assistance programs prior to the expiration of the moratorium on utility shutoffs, expected on June 30, 2021. With less than two months until the anticipated end of the moratorium, customers behind on their payments should know they have several state and federal programs available to assist with their utility bills.
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Helps NJ households pay for heating costs and certain medically necessary cooling expenses.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 10, 2021 - South Jersey Gas, a subsidiary of South Jersey Industries (NYSE: SJI), encourages its customers to take full advantage of available energy assistance programs prior to the expiration of the moratorium on utility shutoffs, expected on June 30, 2021. With less than two months until the anticipated end of the moratorium, customers behind on their payments should know they have several state and federal programs available to assist with their utility bills.
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
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A Senate committee on Thursday unexpectedly rejected a bill that would have weakened local power over warehouse development, and given a greater say to other municipalities and state and county planning authorities.
The bill (S-3688) sought to control a current surge in warehouse construction by requiring towns facing warehouse applications to tell adjoining municipalities about the plans and seek their approval. It also proposed that disputes should be decided by county planning boards, and that appeals would go to the State Planning Commission.
But the bill garnered only two “yes” votes and three abstentions on the five-person panel, meaning that it failed to advance, in a rebuff to its architects including Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester).