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Governor Parson Announces LIHEAP Energy Assistance Program Changes to Help More Missourians Pay Energy Bills
Boonville Daily News
Governor Mike Parson announced that the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Energy Assistance (EA) Program is extending one-time primary heating bill payments through May 31, 2021.
In addition, eligibility for both the heating and cooling programs are expanding from Missouri households with incomes up to 135 percent of the Federal Poverty Level to include Missouri households with an income of up to 60 percent of State Median Income (SMI). This change will now allow a family of four with an annual income of up to $51,021 to receive benefits compared to an annual income of $35,364.
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Before COVID-19 reared its ugly head in Colorado, exacting a devastating toll on lives and livelihoods, the nonprofit Energy Outreach Colorado had evidence that one in every four Colorado households struggled to pay monthly utility bills.
Today, with pandemic-related job losses and reduced incomes, the need for help in paying these bills has skyrocketed â from concerning to critical.
âBetween April 2020 and March 2021, our Heat Help Hotline received over 250,000 calls,â said Denise Stepto, EOCâs chief communications officer. Those calls resulted in EOC paying past-due utility bills for some 25,000 households, for a total of $13 million.
This, Stepto added, represents a 46% increase in the number of bills paid and a 75% increase in assistance dollars over the same period the previous year.
Alluvion Health is working to improve crisis intervention program
MTN
By: Colter Anstaett
and last updated 2021-03-03 19:57:47-05
GREAT FALLS â Alluvion Health in Great Falls is working to improve and expand mental health resources by bringing its community partners together for a new crisis intervention program. Taking pieces that are in operation, the ones that are operating very well, the ones that are evidence-based, and adding to them. Putting data-driven measures to them,â said Dusti Zimmer, Chief Clinical Operations Officer.
A presentation of the draft plan was made to city commissioners at their work session Tuesday night;
click here to see the presentation (PDF). The proposal is a work in progress and will be largely based on community input, however, so Alluvion was careful not to get very specific about it.