New York calls it HEAP

New York Heating Assistance: HEAP

Q: What is heating assistance called in New York?

New York runs the federal program as Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), administered by New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. 18 different program names appear across the states compiled here, which is why a search for the federal acronym often misses the page a household in New York actually needs.

Q: Does New York also stop a utility disconnecting heat in winter?

New York State Public Service Commission sets a separate rule on that, and its short form is: Reviewed one household at a time. In several states the two are linked, because receiving assistance is itself what switches the disconnection protection on. The winter shutoff page for New York carries the rule.

Q: Is heating assistance in New York a state program or a federal one?

Both, in the way that matters to a household. The money is a federal block grant; New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance decides what it is called, when it opens, who is eligible and what it pays. Across the states compiled here that produces 18 program names and 8 different opening months, so the answer is a state answer even though the funding is federal.

Q: Where does New York publish its own heating assistance rules?

On Energy Affordability Program, New York State Department of Public Service, which is the page every figure here was read from. New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance is the agency to go back to when a date or a threshold changes, because a state can move either between program years.

New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance runs the federal heating grant in New York. New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance publishes no fixed opening date for the season. New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance takes applications online through mybenefits and local department of social services.

HEAP

What it is called here

Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)

Ask locally

The season

New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance publishes no fixed opening date

Set locally

The income limit

the agency publishes a rule rather than a figure

Not separate

Crisis component

the one application covers an emergency

The answer

Heating assistance in New York, in one screen

HEAP

Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)

Run by: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
The season: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance publishes no fixed opening date for the season.
The income test: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance does not publish a single income figure for the program on its own page.
How to apply: New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance takes applications online through mybenefits and local department of social services.

Energy Affordability Program, New York State Department of Public Service

All large electric and natural gas utilities provide the EAP discount to households that receive a Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) benefit, regardless of fuel or benefit type.

Energy Affordability Program, New York State Department of Public Service, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

Who qualifies

The HEAP income test in New York

New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance does not publish a single income figure for the program on its own page.

Income is counted gross rather than after tax, and the household is everyone living at the address rather than everyone on the lease. Most states count the last thirty days or the last twelve months, not last year’s tax return, which means a household whose hours were cut in October can qualify in November on a year that looks too high on paper. Apply and let the agency do the arithmetic rather than ruling yourself out.

The other half

Whether New York also stops the utility disconnecting

Reviewed one household at a time

The two are separate: a heating grant is money and a shutoff rule is a restriction on the company. In several states an approved grant application is itself what satisfies the filing the shutoff rule asks for, which makes applying worth doing even for a household that thinks the grant will not cover much. The full rule, with New York State Public Service Commission’s own words, is on the New York winter shutoff page.

New York heating assistance questions

What is heating assistance called in New York?

When can a household apply for heating assistance in New York?

How does a household apply in New York?

Does New York also stop a utility disconnecting heat in winter?

Is heating assistance in New York a state program or a federal one?

Where does New York publish its own heating assistance rules?

Icicles hanging in a row from the eaves of a low brick apartment building against a clear blue sky, with a balcony rail at the right edge — A renter whose heat is bundled into the rent can still qualify in most states, and is among the least likely to apply. Where a state sets its income test against the federal poverty level rather than state median income, the line can sit twenty points apart for the same household. “Icicles on the eaves of a house in Quebec City”, Wilfredor, CC0

Heating assistance in other states

New York winter shutoff rulesWhether New York bars a winter disconnection, and what a household has to do.Winter shutoff rules by stateWhether a window, a forecast or a filing decides it where you live.Heating oil and propane pricesWhat the fuel costs this week in the states that report it.Firewood cutting permitsWhere a permit lets a household cut its own firewood.Heating assistance in every stateThe program names, the opening dates and the income tests side by side.

New York read September 23, 2026 from Energy Affordability Program, New York State Department of Public Service, linked above. Opening dates, income limits and benefit amounts are set each program year and the agency can change them mid season, so the page linked above is the one that governs. Every state is on the heating assistance hub.