{"id":137139,"date":"2024-11-08T05:48:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=137139"},"modified":"2024-11-08T05:48:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T10:48:41","slug":"emergency-fuel-assistance-northampton-county-program-through-a-federal-hud-grant-from-dced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=137139","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Fuel Assistance Northampton County &#8211; Program through a federal HUD grant from DCED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northampton County Area Agency on Aging will begin its Emergency Fuel Assistance Program on November 12, 2024.\u00a0This program is for once-a-season fuel assistance of $800: $780 goes towards fuel assistance and $20 goes to Project of Easton for administrative costs.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, an individual needs to be 60-years of age or older, reside anywhere in Northampton County\u00a0EXCEPT\u00a0for Bethlehem City, must meet HUD Income Guidelines, provide proof of household income and the fuel tank needs to be at 1\/4 full or less. Proof of residency is also required with a copy of the current lease, a letter from the landlord and two pieces of mail, one of which is a bill. For assistance with non-oil heat, a shut-off notice is required. LIHEAP benefits need to be exhausted, or the applicant needs to have been denied LIHEAP benefits, before they can be eligible for this program.<\/p>\n<p>To apply, contact the Northampton County Information &amp; Referral Emergency Services 610-559-3270 or 610-829-4800.<\/p>\n<p>When a referral is received, a Northampton County Area Agency on Aging staff person will schedule a home visit to determine eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0WHO: Low income seniors who reside in Northampton County<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0WHAT: Emergency Fuel Assistance Program through a federal HUD grant from DCED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0WHEN: Begins on November 12, 2024\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northampton County Area Agency on Aging will begin its Emergency Fuel Assistance Program on November 12, 2024.\u00a0This program is for once-a-season fuel assistance of $800: $780 goes towards fuel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=137139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emergency Fuel Assistance Northampton County &#8211; Program through a federal HUD grant from DCED<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}