Clearinghouse Publications

LIHEAP Clearinghouse Issue Briefs

• "Tips for Increasing LIHEAP Application Completion Rates" (May 2020)
• "LIHEAP Training: Examining Common Practices and Unique Approaches" (December 2017)
• "Crisis Following the Lifting of a Winter Moratorium" (December 2017)
• "Energy Choice and Low-Income Households: Consumer Groups and Industry Debate Merits" (October 2017)
• "Engaging Hard-to-Reach Clients" (November 2016)
• "LIHEAP Reporting Requirements" (June 2016)
• "Collaboration Between LIHEAPs and Public Utility Commissions" (March 2016)
• "Creating Efficiency, Maximizing Client Benefits Through Intake Coordination" (March 2016)
• "Checking LIHEAP Data Across Multiple Reports" (February 2016)
• "Renewable Energy and LIHEAP: Solar Projects Target Energy Burdens" (February 2015)
• "Supplemental LIHEAP Funds: Source and Spending" (January 2015)
• "LIHEAP Funds for Furnace Repair and Replacement: Using Crisis and Weatherization Funds to Address Equipment Needs," (September 2014)
• "A New Framework for Heat and Eat: LIHEAP and SNAP After the 2014 Farm Bill," (August 2014)
• "LIHEAP Administrative Cost Savings," (June 2014)
• "LIHEAP Program Fiscal Integrity: Contracts, Controls, and Reporting," (April 2014)
• "Promoting Self Sufficiency for Low-Income Clients: LIHEAP's Assurance 16," (March 2014)
• "Wood Stove Changeouts and LIHEAP: Cheaper, Healthier Alternatives for Wood Heat Clients," (December 2013)

LIHEAP Clearinghouse Reports

• "LIHEAP Primer: What You Need to Know" (Updated: September 2024)
• "Domestic Issues Creating Hardships for Low-Income Utility Customers" (November 2017)
• "LIHEAP Partnerships with Community Based Organizations" (August 2017)
• "Sub-Grantee Contracts: Tools for Uniformity in LIHEAP Delivery" (February 2017)
• "Weatherization: Coordinating LIHEAP and WAP" (July 2016)
• "Leveraging and LIHEAP: Providing Non-Federal Funds for Energy Assistance," (February 2015)
• "Integrating Health and Human Service Programs to Expand Eligibility," (January 2015)
• "Online Application for LIHEAP," (September 2014)
• "LIHEAP Program Integrity: States Make Progress on Documentation and Verification of Client Information," (August 2014)
• "LIHEAP Crisis Components: Requirements, Variations, Innovations," (May 2014)
• "Prepaid Utility Service, Low-Income Customers and LIHEAP," (March 2014)

Training Tools

• Staying Under the 10 Percent Carryover Limit (October 2017)
• LIHEAP and Mixed Status Households [PPT] (August 2016)
• Creating a Benefit Matrix: A Step-by-Step Interactive Guide [PPT] (April 2016)
  

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• Checking LIHEAP Data Across Multiple Reports (March 2016)
• Creating a Benefit Matrix (March 2015)
• Tribal Reporting Requirements (March 2015)
• LIHEAP 101 (September 2014)

LIHEAP Benefits / Eligibility

• "Targeting LIHEAP Benefits: State Strategies Based on Household Income, Energy Burden and Heating Costs," (March 2010)
• LIHEAP Clearinghouse Memorandum 440: Subsidized Housing and LIHEAP (November 2013)

LIHEAP Leveraging

• LIHEAP Clearinghouse Memorandum 820: Background on LIHEAP Leveraging Incentive Program (November 2013)
• LIHEAP Clearinghouse Memorandum 880: LIHEAP Negotiations With Non-Regulated Fuel Vendors: Fixed Margin Programs, Discounts, Summer Fill, Fuel Cooperatives (August 2015)
• LIHEAP Clearinghouse Memorandum 865: Fuel Funds (August 2015)

Residential Energy Assistance Challenge (REACH)

Contact the LIHEAP Clearinghouse for archived REACH evaluations