The Trump administration has laid off the entire staff of a federal program that provides energy assistance to millions of low-income households. Roughly two dozen workers who ran the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program were fired last week. The program, called LIHEAP for short, has a 4-billion dollar budget that helps pay low-income Americans […]
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Staff fired at federal program that helps low-income households pay for heat
The Trump administration has laid off the entire staff of a federal program that provides energy assistance to millions of low-income households. Roughly two dozen workers who ran the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program were fired last week. The program, called LIHEAP for short, has a 4-billion dollar budget that helps pay low-income Americans for heat during the winter and cooling in the summer. Following the layoffs, state officials are now wondering whether they will still receive millions of dollars in expected federal payments.