Home Energy Assistance programs play a critically important role to protect public health and safety by ensuring that all families and individuals have safe access to home heating. Watch Video. Home energy assistance programs are a set of important federally-funded initiatives that help to protect public health and safety by ensuring that all families and individuals have safe access to home heating fuel, equipment, and other measures.
Homeowners and renters are eligible — including households whose cost of heat is included in the rent and not subsidized. Eligibility is based on household size and the gross annual income of every household member over the age of If you are not sure, call your local agency. There are other funds available to help you save on heating costs. Show all home energy assistance locations. Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. Your feedback will not receive a response.
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The program is designed primarily to serve homeowners. Landlords are required to maintain the heating system for their tenants under the Massachusetts State Sanitary Code.
Through the heating season, the program is primarily an emergency-based heating system repair program that helps eligible homeowners pay to repair or replace defective or unsafe heating systems. If sufficient funds are available after the heating season, HEARTWAP will complete maintenance work clean and tunes and replace heating systems that are in poor condition and not worth repairing.
Funds are also available for asbestos abatement only as needed to enable heating system repairs or replacements to be completed safely. There are maximum allowable expenditure limits for different types of heating system activities. In some instances households may be required to provide a co-payment. Local agencies attempt to utilize all available utility funds for system replacements in an effort to minimize the need for client contributions.
Households are served based on need. The agency contracts with licensed and insured heating repair technicians to fix the problem.
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