Contact: Mark Wolfe
Phone: 202-237-5199
Date: June 10, 2001
TABLE 2 — Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Estimated Winter Heating Season Program Caseloads Federal Eligibility Criteria 1
1 Data was provided by the state through a phone survey and reflect caseloads projections made during the first two weeks of Feb. 2001. % Served data was provided by HHS.
For additional information: contact Mark Wolfe, 202-237-5199, National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association.
| %Served | ||||||
| STATE | 1999 – 2000 |
2000 – 2001 |
% Change | Total Eligible | 1999 | 2000 |
| Alabama | 38,396 | 41,468 | 8.0% | 501,811 | 7.7% | 8.3% |
| Alaska | 7,305 | 7,500 | 2.7% | 55,771 | 13.1% | 13.4% |
| Arizona | 20,417 | 25,000 | 22.4% | 458,425 | 4.5% | 5.5% |
| Arkansas | 52,000 | 70,000 | 34.6% | 309,354 | 16.8% | 22.6% |
| California | 106,000 | 123,280 | 16.3% | 3,590,259 | 3.0% | 3.4% |
| Colorado | 53,182 | 75,000 | 41.0% | 342,962 | 15.5% | 21.9% |
| Connecticut | 56,340 | 68,000 | 20.7% | 410,270 | 13.7% | 16.6% |
| Delaware | 10,215 | 11,000 | 7.7% | 76,591 | 13.3% | 14.4% |
| Dist. of Col. | 11,742 | 15,000 | 27.7% | 71,562 | 16.4% | 21.0% |
| Florida | 34,393 | 42,500 | 23.6% | 1,626,288 | 2.1% | 2.6% |
| Georgia | 60,710 | 120,000 | 97.7% | 786,893 | 7.7% | 15.2% |
| Hawaii | 5,300 | 5,300 | 0.0% | 127,191 | 4.2% | 4.2% |
| Idaho | 23,529 | 30,930 | 31.5% | 119,019 | 19.8% | 26.0% |
| Illinois | 247,000 | 350,000 | 41.7% | 1,253,643 | 19.7% | 27.9% |
| Indiana | 97,000 | 121,370 | 25.1% | 575,455 | 16.9% | 21.1% |
| Iowa | 62,000 | 80,000 | 29.0% | 276,391 | 22.4% | 28.9% |
| Kansas | 21,183 | 25,000 | 18.0% | 272,736 | 7.8% | 9.2% |
| Kentucky | 94,931 | 209,748 | 120.9% | 420,010 | 22.6% | 49.9% |
| Louisiana | 48,000 | 92,100 | 91.9% | 495,985 | 9.7% | 18.6% |
| Maine | 44,000 | 58,000 | 31.8% | 120,079 | 36.6% | 48.3% |
| Maryland | 60,000 | 70,000 | 16.7% | 481,806 | 12.5% | 14.5% |
| Massachusetts | 113,408 | 123,000 | 8.5% | 755,770 | 15.0% | 16.3% |
| Michigan | 291,831 | 362,000 | 24.0% | 1,042,702 | 28.0% | 34.7% |
| Minnesota | 84,122 | 107,000 | 27.2% | 453,129 | 18.6% | 23.6% |
| Mississippi | 26,500 | 39,750 | 50.0% | 334,834 | 7.9% | 11.9% |
| Missouri | 89,082 | 110,198 | 23.7% | 545,559 | 16.3% | 20.2% |
| Montana | 14,271 | 17,500 | 22.6% | 96,840 | 14.7% | 18.1% |
| Nebraska | 20,392 | 25,500 | 25.0% | 176,042 | 11.6% | 14.5% |
| Nevada | 7,844 | 8,700 | 10.9% | 165,013 | 4.8% | 5.3% |
| New Hampshire | 23,081 | 27,500 | 19.1% | 116,277 | 19.9% | 23.7% |
| New Jersey | 120,000 | 150,000 | 25.0% | 904,349 | 13.3% | 16.6% |
| New Mexico | 24,000 | 48,000 | 100.0% | 188,568 | 12.7% | 25.5% |
| New York | 676,749 | 818,000 | 20.9% | 2,331,183 | 29.0% | 35.1% |
| North Carolina | 141,000 | 151,000 | 7.1% | 853,356 | 16.5% | 17.7% |
| North Dakota | 11,297 | 14,000 | 23.9% | 75,632 | 14.9% | 18.5% |
| Ohio | 195,380 | 224,700 | 15.0% | 1,238,802 | 15.8% | 18.1% |
| Oklahoma | 57,300 | 86,000 | 50.1% | 352,521 | 16.3% | 24.4% |
| Oregon | 48,547 | 88,547 | 82.4% | 327,080 | 14.8% | 27.1% |
| Pennsylvania | 213,032 | 280,750 | 31.8% | 1,367,533 | 15.6% | 20.5% |
| Rhode Island | 19,500 | 26,000 | 33.3% | 127,855 | 15.3% | 20.3% |
| South Carolina | 52,222 | 64,755 | 24.0% | 427,466 | 12.2% | 15.1% |
| South Dakota | 11,500 | 15,000 | 30.4% | 73,316 | 15.7% | 20.5% |
| Tennessee | 65,278 | 95,630 | 46.5% | 607,439 | 10.7% | 15.7% |
| Texas | 42,767 | 53,459 | 25.0% | 2,104,374 | 2.0% | 2.5% |
| Utah | 25,698 | 30,000 | 16.7% | 136,844 | 18.8% | 21.9% |
| Vermont | 21,637 | 23,900 | 10.5% | 60,979 | 35.5% | 39.2% |
| Virginia | 82,789 | 83,518 | 0.9% | 654,664 | 12.6% | 12.8% |
| Washington | 49,800 | 75,000 | 50.6% | 513,476 | 9.7% | 14.6% |
| West Virginia | 38,804 | 55,000 | 41.7% | 237,397 | 16.3% | 23.2% |
| Wisconsin | 88,105 | 110,100 | 25.0% | 488,837 | 18.0% | 22.5% |
| Wyoming | 6,997 | 10,000 | 42.9% | 51,395 | 13.6% | 19.5% |
| TOTAL | 3,816,576 | 4,965,703 | 30.1% | 29,181,733 | 13.1% | 17.0% |