Residents in South Dakota who have been accepted into the Low Income Heat Assistance Program, or LiHEAP, will see the first checks this month. The program continues into March of next year.
Dave Gall administers the program for the Department of Social Services, and says the numbers dipped a bit last year…
Just over twelve thousand four hundred applicants have been approved so far this year.
Gall says they use federal poverty guidelines to determine who is eligible…
Gall says there are several ways to get more information on the program…
The program, which is federally funded, got about seventeen million dollars last year.
