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LIHEAP and Residential Energy Costs (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised March 7, 2006
Report Number RS20761
Report Type Report
Authors Bernard A. Gelb, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Among considerations in setting funding levels for the Low Income Home EnergyAssistance Program (LIHEAP) are current prices of residential energy. Those pricesfell in real terms for most of the years since the program began and energy efficiencygains probably have reduced the amount of energy required to provide a given level ofcomfort and convenience. However, the aggregate cost in current dollars of energy usedby low-income households has risen over the last 25 years and residential energy priceshave increased recently. Federal LIHEAP funding has not kept pace with the increases,but this does not necessarily mean that funding has failed to keep pace with "need."