Here is a list of Community Action Program offices in the county that can help applicants apply for heating assistance:

About 62,400 households received heating assistance through the program last year, with 17 percent of them, or 10,700, also getting help with their electric bills.

Cuts to heating assistance are leaving Mainers in the cold.

"I'm relieved that there is additional funding for heating assistance to help people get through this Minnesota winter."

Whether the demand for heating assistance will actually turn out to be higher this year is not clear.

Some could even be directed to programs aimed at protecting low-income consumers; heating assistance and weatherization, for instance.

They didn't tell them that they were going to endanger student loans or cut out low-income heating assistance.

Roughly 370,000 households in the five boroughs currently receive heating assistance, according to the city's Human Resources Administration.

The state agencies that help people get the heating assistance have been swamped.

Low-income New Jersey residents will receive $37.8 million in heating assistance during the current fiscal year.