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Tribal LIHEAP Funding

FY 2020

LIHEAP
The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), released approximately $3.32 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees on November 1, 2019. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2020, and Health Extenders Act of 2019, ("Continuing Resolution"), Public Law 116-59, which the President signed into law on September 27, 2019. A second release of $381 million was announced February 27, 2020. A third and final round of funding was released April 3, 2020. As of April 3,2020, OCS has allocated 100 percent of the LIHEAP funding available to grantees for FY 2020. Congress appropriated these funds under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94), which provided the final budget for FY 2020 and which the President signed into law on December 20, 2019. This legislation provides for a total funding amount of approximately $3.74 billion and a change to the funding formula methodology. This change added an additional hold-harmless provision that called for HHS to do the following:

1. Hold the net allocations of all states' and territories' at no less than 97% of the amounts that they received for FFY 2019; and
2. Ratably reduce the states' and territories' that would get more than 100 percent of their 2019 awards in order to ensure the 97 percent floor is met for all states and territories.

View a table of state and territory grantee allocations and tribal grantee allocations.

On May 8, 2020 $900 million in supplemental funding was released to help “prevent, prepare for, or respond to” home energy needs surrounding the national emergency created by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Congress appropriated these funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (Public Law 116-136), which the President signed into law on March 27, 2020. OCS has awarded 100% of the LIHEAP funding available to grantees under the CARES Act. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, five U.S territories, and almost all Native American tribes and tribal organizations that are current LIHEAP grantees received a supplemental award.

View a table of state and territory grantee supplemental fund allocation and tribal grantee allocations supplemental fund allocation

FY 2019

LIHEAP
The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), released approximately $3.65 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees on October 26, 2018. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2019, Public Law 115-245, which the President signed into law on September 28, 2017 and which is effective until September 30, 2019.

View a table of state and territory grantee allocations and tribal grantee allocations.

FY 2018

LIHEAP
The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), released approximately $3.03 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees on October 20, 2017. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2018, Public Law 115-56, which the President signed into law on September 8, 2017. A second and final release of $609 million was announced April 23, 2018. The final release of funding is provided under Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141), which provided the final budget for FY 2018 and which the President signed into law on March 23, 2018. The legislation provides for a total funding amount of $3.64 billion for FY2018.

View a table of state and territory grantee allocations and tribal grantee allocations.

FY 2017

The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), released approximately $3.09 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees on October 25, 2016. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2017, Public Law 114-223, which the President signed into law on September 29, 2016. A second and final release of $3.39 million was announced June 12, 2017. The final release of funding is provided under Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-31), which provided the final budget for FY 2017 and which the President signed into law on May 5, 2017. The legislation provides for a total funding amount of $3.39 billion for FY2017.

View a table of state and territory grantee allocations and tribal grantee allocations.

FY 2016

The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), released approximately $3.017 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees on October 23, 2015. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2016, Public Law 114-53, which the President signed into law on September 30, 2015. An additional $335.5 million was released April 1, 2016.

On September 16, 2016, OSC announced a final release of $14.4 million, which brings the total LIHEAP funding for FFY 2016 to just under $3.37 billion for all state, territory and tribe/tribal organization grantees. The funding was provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2016, Public Law 114-113, which the President signed into law on December 18, 2015. HHS released all but for $19,473,000 of funding available to grantees for FY 2016 and has transferred it for other purposes.

View a table of state and territory grantee allocations and tribal grantee allocations.

FY 2015

The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), released approximately $3.05 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees on October 16, 2014. An additional $300 million was released on January 21, 2015. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Resolution 2015, Public Law 113-164, which the President signed into law on September 19, 2014.

View a table of state and territory grantee allocations and tribal grantee allocations.

FY 2014 LIHEAP

The Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA) released approximately $2.9 billion of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees. This funding is provided under the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (P.L. 113-46) and represents roughly 90 percent of the regular block grant funding provided in FY 2013. Tribal grantees received about $33.7 million of the released funds.

January 30, 2014, OCS/DEA released an additional $452 million to states, tribes and territories bringing the total amount released in FY 2014 to almost $3.4 billion. Tribal grantees received almost $5 million of the second release of funds. View a table of the FY 2014 release of funds.

FY 2013 LIHEAP

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released $3.068 billion of FY 2013 regular block grant funding to LIHEAP grantees. Tribes will receive about $35 million of the released funds and $4.2 million will be available to territories. This funding was provided under the Continuing Appropriations Act or CR and represents about 90 percent of the regular block grant funding provided in FY 2012. View a table detailing the allocations to grantees made by this release.

On June 5, HHS announced the release of about $187.371 million in LIHEAP funding. This release brings LIHEAP funding for this fiscal year to $3,255,435,546 and reflects both the final enacted appropriation and sequestration. View a table of tribal allocations.

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