Georgia residents who are 65 or older can start applying for federal heating help on Tuesday, Dec. 1, the first workday of the month. Everyone else who qualifies has to wait until the first workday in January, according to the state Division of Family and Children Services.
The help comes from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, and in Georgia it is run through local Community Action Agencies. The state’s LIHEAP page says the heating program “typically begins the first workday of December each year for residents aged 65 and older or medically homebound.” Other eligible residents “may apply for assistance beginning the first workday in January of the following year.”…