Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
Helps households with lower incomes pay the high cost of home energy. It has regular, emergency, cooling and equipment-repair parts to the program.
Who it's for
- Your gross monthly income is at or below the HEAP income guidelines.
What it offers
- One-time regular benefit for heating costs
- Emergency HEAP for heating emergencies or utility shut-offs
- Heating Equipment Repair and Replacement (HERR)
- Clean and Tune energy efficiency services
- Cooling assistance for medically needy households
The HEAP year generally runs from mid-November to mid-March or until funds run out.
Call to check before you apply.
Most benefits are paid directly to the heating or utility vendor.
Call to check before you apply.
Heating equipment replacement is limited to once in a 10-year period.
Call to check before you apply.
You may need to submit proof of identity, residence, household income and heating situation.
Call to check before you apply.
How to apply
- Apply online at myBenefits during the HEAP season.
- People 60 and over, and people who are permanently disabled, may apply by mail to the Office for the Aging.
- Others, and anyone with an emergency, apply in person or by mail to EAC Inc. at 175 Fulton Avenue, 4th Floor, Hempstead.
- Households getting SNAP or temporary assistance should contact their worker at Social Services.
- EAC Inc. (applications and emergencies) 516-565-4327
- Social Services general information 516-227-8519
- Service area
- Nassau County
- Address
- 60 Charles Lindbergh Boulevard, Uniondale, NY 11553
SourceHome Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)·Checked Oct 19, 2026
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- Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) – Nassau County Department of Human Services, Office for the Aging
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