SPRINGFIELD — Starting Thursday, low-income households in Illinois can start making use of for state help on their pure gasoline, propane and electrical energy payments.
The Low-Earnings Dwelling Vitality Help Program, or LIHEAP, has $300 million obtainable. Households can apply by visiting helpillinoisfamilies.com or by calling 1-833-711-0374. Info on different state help packages will be discovered on that web site as effectively.
An inventory of native businesses will be searched by county right here.
LIHEAP offers one-time funds on to vitality service suppliers on behalf of recipients.
Households who earn as much as two occasions the federal poverty degree are eligible for LIHEAP. That works out to a 30-day gross earnings beneath $2,265 for a one-person family, $3,052 for a two-person dwelling, $3,838 for a three-person dwelling, $4,625 for 4 individuals, $5,412 for 5 individuals and $6,198 for six individuals.
The extent of help obtained is needs-based, and final yr’s LIHEAP recipients obtained a median of $1,330 per family, based on the governor’s workplace.
A state rebate program for the acquisition of an electrical automobile stays open via Sept. 30, and the state introduced this week a brand new rebate utility window will open Nov. 1.
The present spherical of funding opened July 1, providing a $4,000 rebate for people buying an all-electric automobile and a $1,500 rebate for an all-electric bike. Functions for the primary spherical of funding have to be postmarked by Sept. 30 and submitted inside 90 days of the automobile’s buy.
The following spherical will open Nov. 1 and run via January 2023.
The rebates don’t apply to hybrids or autos not licensed for Illinois roads. It additionally doesn’t apply to rented or leased autos.
The purchaser should reside in Illinois on the date of the automobile buy, and it have to be bought at a state-licenses supplier. Documentation necessities embrace a duplicate of buy bill, proof of buy, automobile registration and IRS W-9 or W-8 types. The purchaser should additionally personal the automobile for 12 months.
As of July 1, the fund paying out the rebates had a steadiness of $17.9 million, and rebates have been topic to funding availability.
The Illinois Environmental Safety Company, which administers the rebates, provides precedence to low-income candidates whose earnings doesn’t exceed 80 % of the state median earnings and expedites grants to these people. So far, as of Aug. 25, based on IEPA, the state has obtained 72 low-income functions and accepted 22 of them. It had obtained 898 that didn’t meet the low-income threshold.
Extra info will be discovered right here https://www2.illinois.gov/epa/subjects/ceja/Pages/Electrical-Car-Rebates.aspx.
ANTI-VIOLENCE FUNDING: Gov. JB Pritzker’s workplace introduced grant alternatives can be found for $100 million in funding made obtainable via the state’s Reimagine Public Security Act.
The RPSA, an effort to drive violence-prevention funds to the state’s most harmful areas, was accepted in 2021 and obtained $250 million within the state’s current-year price range from federal American Rescue Plan Act funding.
The funding introduced this week will assist nonprofit community-based organizations and native governments in 16 municipal areas exterior of Chicago, based on the governor’s workplace.
The state additionally made $113 million obtainable in Could, for which the appliance window remains to be open.
The state’s Workplace of Firearm Violence Prevention, or OFVP, convened native advisory councils within the 16 non-Chicago communities eligible for funding, which embrace Aurora, Belleville and East St. Louis space, Berwyn-Cicero space, Calumet Metropolis space, Chicago Heights space, Danville, Decatur, Joliet, Kankakee, Maywood-Bellwood areas, Peoria, Rock Island, Rockford, Springfield, Urbana-Champaign space and Waukegan-North Chicago space.
The OFVP will award grants via this system to eligible nonprofits that target violence intervention packages, psychological and behavioral well being packages designed to assist victims of trauma, and for youth mentoring packages.
Details about the grant program will be discovered at http://www.dhs.illinois.gov/rpsa, and assets for organizations will be discovered at http://www.DHS.illinois.gov/Grants.
ETHANOL PRODUCTION: The state introduced this week that it and surrounding states have been granted a federal emergency waiver by the U.S. EPA that enables for top volatility gasoline to be bought via Sept. 15.
The governor’s workplace stated it should cut back gas disruptions following an Aug. 24 fireplace which broke out at a BP facility in Whiting, Ind., which produces 430,000 barrels of oil per day.
Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin additionally requested and have been granted the waiver which, the Pritzker administration famous, would increase the usage of ethanol produced by Illinois corn farmers.
“After studying of {the electrical} fireplace on the BP facility in Whiting, our administration has taken proactive steps to extend gasoline provide and cut back boundaries so all Illinoisans have entry to the gas they want,” Pritzker stated in a information launch. “This coordinated effort with our neighboring states will cut back the possibility of disruptions and preserve the individuals and companies of Illinois shifting.”
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