BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey this week announced new actions to help Massachusetts families lower their heating and electric bills this winter.
Healey declared a State of Energy Emergency and, through an executive order, is expanding eligibility for home heating assistance and removing charges from electric bills.
This includes creating a new home heating assistance benefit for about 50,000 middle class households who rely on heating oil that previously did not qualify for existing assistance programs, as well as increasing heating assistance for approximately 156,000 low-income households as part of the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)…