The LIHEAP Databook
Executive Summary
The goal of this LIHEAP Databook is to give policymakers, advocates,
program directors and the media a succinct snapshot of the LIHEAP
program and its implementation.
The document includes an overview of the LIHEAP program from the
national perspective using FY 2002 data, and then a state-by-state
analysis of the LIHEAP program and the populations it serves. While
some data for FY 2003 is available, we chose to use FY 2002 data
because it was the most recent year for which all the data were
available for same-year comparisons. For each state, the following
data is displayed:
- The federal appropriations for each state for
FY02
- Number of eligible low income households
- Number of low income households served
- The average LIHEAP benefit paid out to low income households for
heating
assistance, cooling assistance, crisis grants and weatherization
- Percentage of households served with elderly, people with disabilities,
or young children present
- A comparison of residential energy burdens between all households
and LIHEAP-
assisted households, by census region.
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Or, click on any state below to see data about the LIHEAP program
in that state.
Data Sources
The primary data sources for this Databook are two reports created
by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration
for Children and Families, Office of Community Services Division
of Energy Assistance: LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for FY 2002 (published
August 2004) and the LIHEAP Report to Congress for FY 2002 (published
February 2005). These reports are published annually and provide
detailed information about the LIHEAP program and its implementation.
Data regarding low-income household residential energy costs
came from the April 2003 report, Home Energy Affordability
Gap published by economist Roger Colton of Fisher, Sheehan
and Colton. This report is available online at
http://www.fsconline.com.
The Campaign for Home Energy Assistance intends to update this Databook
annually as federal data sources become available.
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