When we receive supplemental funding, HHS adds the supplemental funding to the funds we have already received during the year, and we rerun all of the funding through the LIHEAP funding formula to obtain an allocation that is based off the total amount of funding received. The individual grant recipient funding allocations for each supplemental award may be different, even if the nationwide supplemental amounts are the same.ĭue to the legislative directions, typically all LIHEAP funding is calculated together within the same federal fiscal year no funding is calculated in isolation. Today’s supplemental LIHEAP funding is separate and distinct from the prior two supplemental LIHEAP funding releases in FFY 2023-the $100 million in supplemental funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ( Public Law 117-58 ) and the $1 billion in supplemental funds from the Continuing Appropriations Act (Continuing Resolution), 2023 ( Public Law 117-180 ) were released on November 4, 2022. We have determined that releasing the $1 billion supplemental funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), separate from the rest of the regular funding, is the most prudent course of action to ensure grant recipients have funding during this winter heating season. HHS worked to find the most efficient and expedient way to release funding while minimizing the reporting burden to the grant recipient to the greatest extent possible. HHS and OMB have been working through some accounting issues related to how Congress appropriated the funding in the final budget compared to the temporary budget (Continuing Resolution). The latter provided the final budget for FFY 2023, and the President signed it into law on December 29, 2022. Congress appropriated these funds under the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, which Congress included with the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (FFY 2023 CAA) ( Public Law 117-328 ). Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services (OCS), Division of Energy Assistance (DEA), is releasing today $1 billion in funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2023.
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