Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP and USF) | Community Affairs and Resource Center (CARC)
Community Affairs and Resource Center (CARC) is an Application Agency for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Universal Assistance Fund (USF).USF helps make natural gas and electricity more affordable for low-income households by lowering these bills, in the form of a credit that appears on the bill itself. USF application period is year-round.LIHEAP helps low-income individuals and families meet home heating and medically-necessary cooling costs with a monetary benefit that varies by applicant income, household size, fuel type, and heating region. LIHEAP application period is October 1 to June 30 (subject to change).The heating benefit is typically provided as a two-party check in the name of the applicant and the fuel supplier, when the household is responsible to the fuel supplier for payment. The benefit is instead provided as a single-party check in the name of the benefit recipient when heat is included in rent. Heating benefit recipients may have their benefits directly forwarded to their utility company. The medically-necessary cooling assistance benefit is $200, and is applied as a direct credit to an active electric account, or issued as one-party checks.
Physical Address
913 Sewall Ave, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Hours
Mon - Fri 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Voice
Fax
732-502-8955
Website
Application process
Walk-in or visit the website to obtain an application. Call the application agency to set up an appointment to drop off the application in-person. Completed applications can also be mailed to the Application Agency.
Eligibility
- LIHEAP applicant household must be responsible for home heating or cooling costs, either directly or included in the rent, and have gross income at or below 60% of the NJ State Median Income level.- USF applicant household must have gross income at or below 185% of the federal poverty level, and must pay more than 2% of annual income on electricity or more than 2% on natural gas - or, if electric heat, more than 4% on electricity. Recipients must reside at the address provided on their utility account, and USF benefits will only be offered to the person/head of household listed on the utility account.
Service area
Atlantic County, NJ Middlesex County, NJ Monmouth County, NJ Ocean County, NJ
Agency info
Community Affairs and Resource Center (CARC)
Provides a wide variety of services to the Latino, Creole, Haitian, African-American, and Caucasian communities. CARC provides case management, translation/interpretation services, notary public, job readiness classes, employment placement assistance, rental and energy assistance, lead education, lead hazard reduction assistance in homes, advocacy and referral services. Additonal services incluse english as a second Language (ESL) classes, workshops, parenting classes, health and nutrition classes.