THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release December 18, 2000
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
President Clinton today directed the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) to release $155.65 million in Low Income Home Energy
Assistance Program (LIHEAP) emergency funds to all states to assist
low-income households facing continuing, substantial increases in home
heating fuel prices.
On September 23, the President directed the release of $400 million in
LIHEAP emergency funds to help states prepare to assist low-income
households in coping with high fuel prices during the winter. Since then,
heating oil and natural gas prices have continued to rise above earlier
projections. The Department of Energy now projects that heating oil prices
this winter will be 29 percent higher than last winter, and natural gas
prices will be 40 percent higher than last winter.
Low-income households are especially burdened by fuel price increases,
forcing many families to forego other essential expenses in order to stay
warm during the cold months. Today?s LIHEAP release will help states
continue to meet the needs of these families throughout the winter. In
response to the President?s urging, many states have adopted higher income
eligibility limits in their LIHEAP programs and higher benefit levels in
anticipation of greater need for assistance this winter.
Today?s release allocates funds to all states, factoring in states?
reliance on heating oil, natural gas and propane. The cold weather states
of the Northeast and Midwest will receive most of the funds. However, all
states will receive some assistance since low-income households throughout
the country are affected by fuel price increases. In some areas,
electricity prices have risen since electricity generation often is fueled
by oil or natural gas.
LIHEAP helps eligible families pay the costs of heating and insulating
their homes in the winter and cooling their homes in the summer. In
addition to the $400 million release in September, HHS also released this
summer a total of $44.35 million to respond to the heat emergency in the
South, and to energy emergencies in Alaska and California. Today?s release
exhausts the LIHEAP emergency funds made available under the FY 2000
Emergency Supplemental Act. The budget agreement passed by Congress last
week, and to be signed into law by the President, will bring available
LIHEAP funding to a total of $1.7 billion for FY 2001.
The state allocations of today?s release follow. Funds are released to
state agencies, which then make them available to eligible low-income
applicants in their state. These amounts also include funds that will be
provided directly to tribes in these states.
STATE-BY-STATE BREAKDOWN OF
DECEMBER 18, 2000 LIHEAP ALLOCATIONS
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| | December 18 |
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| State | Allocation |
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| Alabama | $ |
| | 1,260,378 |
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| Alaska | 816,155 |
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| Arizona | 543,471 |
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| Arkansas | 968,677 |
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| California | 7,152,413 |
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| Colorado | 2,561,962 |
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| Connecticut | 3,408,837 |
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| Delaware | 437,710 |
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| D.C. | 501,789 |
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| Florida | 1,432,305 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Georgia | 1,622,369 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Hawaii | 92,245 |
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| Idaho | 746,839 |
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| Illinois | 9,619,596 |
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| Indiana | 4,160,540 |
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| Iowa | 3,047,316 |
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| Kansas | 1,417,592 |
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| Kentucky | 1,846,297 |
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| Louisiana | 1,279,232 |
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| Maine | 2,078,814 |
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| Maryland | 2,473,980 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Massachusetts | 6,774,352 |
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| Michigan | 9,366,548 |
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| Minnesota | 6,327,357 |
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| Mississippi | 1,096,194 |
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| Missouri | 3,572,188 |
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| Montana | 1,063,045 |
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| Nebraska | 1,516,775 |
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| Nevada | 253,183 |
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| New Hampshire | 1,248,591 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| New Jersey | 6,577,800 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| New Mexico | 829,260 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| New York | 21,342,766 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| North Carolina | 2,578,299 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| North Dakota | 1,180,188 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Ohio | 8,237,908 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Oklahoma | 1,233,888 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Oregon | 1,365,107 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Pennsylvania | 11,102,333 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Rhode Island | 1,166,317 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| South Carolina | 935,903 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| South Dakota | 992,900 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Tennessee | 1,635,369 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Texas | 3,269,894 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Utah | 1,222,215 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Vermont | 904,330 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Virginia | 2,619,779 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Washington | 2,158,547 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| West Virginia | 1,269,788 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| Wisconsin | 5,771,270 |
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| Wyoming | 463,992 |
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| Territories | 105,397 |
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|----------------+--------------|
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| TOTAL | |
| | $155,650,000 |
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