Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Wednesday, November 11, that she has awarded nearly $570,000 in grant funding to 14 organizations across the state to help low-income households pay off or lower their natural gas heating bills.
The grant program utilizes funds from a settlement the AG’s Office reached with National Grid for improperly charging customers reconnection fees. Since 2018, the grant program has awarded more than $2 million to programs and initiatives that provide fuel assistance.
Organizations to receive funding in Worcester County include:
The Southeast Asian Coalition of Massachusetts
(Essex, Plymouth, Suffolk and Worcester Counties)
The organization will use the funds to enhance its current program that is geared toward assisting Southeast Asian and Arabic-speaking households gain access to fuel assistance programs
The Spanish American Center
(Northern Worcester County)
The organization will use the funding to expand its current program that provides assistance to Latinx families.
Across the state, The Massachusetts Association for Community Action (MASSCAP) will provide 22 statewide organizations with additional funds to help natural gas customers who participate in the federal Low Income and Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), as well as those who do not qualify for the program but make less than 80 percent of the state median income.
