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Offers utility bill payment assistance to members who receive Adams Electric Cooperative utility service.

Provides food, shelter, utility assistance for individuals or families in need.

Assists low-income households access utility assistance through the application process for LIHEAP, Crisis, CAP programs, Dollar Energy, and weatherization services. Partners include Dollar Energy and Columbia Gas. Please Note: the agency does NOT provide direct payment for utility services, but assists with applications for utility programs.

Provides emergency assistance for financially struggling individuals and families in crisis seeking assistance for such things as food, clothing, shelter, rent, household utility expenses and similar miscellaneous living needs. Referrals made for assistance not offered at facility.

Assists with the following bills: medical (physician verified), prescriptions (must receive fax from doctor's office verifying prescription), electric (no CAP recipients), gas (no CAP recipients), water, local phone bill payment/connection (up to $20), and bus passes/gas vouchers (employment or medical purposes).

Assists customers who demonstrate a genuine need for assistance. Helps up to $250.00, but you must pay at least 25% of your past due bill to be eligible. This credit is available only twice per year; once between January - June and between July - December.

Provides a one time only assistance focusing on the following needs: energy assistance, housing and medical assistance. People needing help may call or submit a written application to the organization. All requests are evaluated in confidentiality. The organization also attempts to put applicants in contact with additional organizations that can assist them.

Assists individuals in planning for heating needs through financial planning education and energy conservation and weatherization resources to alleviate heating crises in the future.

Provides a range of financial and supportive services to low-income veterans and their families. Assistance can include help with rent or utility payments. After reviewing application and all back-up documentation, applicant will be notified about assistance eligibility.

Helps individuals and families with one-time needs and tangible assistance. Assistance may include help with rent, utilities, prescriptions, and other needs. Help and amounts vary by conference. Also provides vouchers for clothing, household items, and furniture for use at Saint Vincent de Paul thrift stores. Sponsors a food pantry in Butler that serves over 500 families every month. Food bank members can expect to receive vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy products, and non-perishable items. In addition, more than 20 Society Conferences host food pantries and many others provide some form of food assistance.

Helps residential customers maintain electric service and eliminate their past-due balance. PCAP offers a reduced bill that is based on a percentage of income and debt forgiveness. Debt forgiveness credits are applied directly to participants' electric service accounts in recognition of payments that are made on time and paid in-full.

Provides Utility assistance and/or mediation services for eligible clients experiencing difficulty with utility payments. Intensive follow-up and referral services are provided. Available customer assistance programs include: PPL on Track PPL Operation Help Dollar Energy Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative Sullivan Rural Electric Cooperative UGI Customer Assistance Program UGI Operation Share

For those who are homeless or near homeless, funding for eligible individuals to use to pay the first and last month's rent in order to maintain current housing or obtain new housing. Could also help pay for other financial expenses that, without the support, might lead to homelessness, including security deposits, utility assistance or transportation. Eligibility for the Home4Good funding is based on income and prioritized based on vulnerability.

Provides information or assistance for housing needs including transitional housing, shelters, landlords, security deposit assistance, rent and utility assistance, and help with eviction notices.

Provides Utility assistance and/or mediation services for eligible clients experiencing difficulty with utility payments. Intensive follow-up and referral services are provided. Available customer assistance programs include: PPL on Track PPL Operation Help Dollar Energy Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative Sullivan Rural Electric Cooperative UGI Customer Assistance Program UGI Operation Share

Rental assistance, case management and financial literacy are available for individuals/families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, such as facing eviction and electric shut-off notices.

Provides one-time limited financial help with late rent, utilities, emergency shelter in hotel/motel, prescription medicine, clothing required for work, and other services that provide a helping hand to allow people to get on firmer footing.

Provides assistance for utilities, rent, fuel oil, and prescriptions. NOTE: The amount of assistance varies depending on the program and funding streams available to WCHS.

Offers bill payment assistance to low-income, residential customers in a hardship situation (service terminated or in threat of termination for nonpayment). Customers are eligible for MEAF assistance every 12 months.

Provides Utility assistance and/or mediation services for eligible clients experiencing difficulty with utility payments. Intensive follow-up and referral services are provided. Available customer assistance programs include: PPL on Track PPL Operation Help Dollar Energy Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative Sullivan Rural Electric Cooperative UGI Customer Assistance Program UGI Operation Share

Provides clothing, personal needs, and financial assistance, as well as, household items. Offers help for individuals and families who are at risk of a utility shutoff. Utility assistance may include help with natural gas, electricity, water, propane, and fuel oil bills, and is offered as funding is available.

Project REACH is an emergency hardship fund designed to help residential customers who have suffered a recent financial hardship and need temporary help in paying their electric bill. The distribution of funds is administered by the Salvation Army located throughout the Penn Power service territory. Customer Assistance Program (CAP) CAP helps residential customers maintain electric service. Participating customers are placed on a payment plan that requires a regular monthly payment based on a discounted rate. The goals of CAP are to:

• Improve ability to make a payment
• Reduce consumption of electricity

CAP is administered by Human Services staff members and community-based organizations. There are household income requirements and other program qualifications.

Provides access to a variety of energy assistance programs so families can maintain their utility services, including Customer Assistance Program (CAP) and Customer Assistance and Referral Evaluation Service (CARES). CAP helps low-income, payment troubled customers of Duquesne Light establish manageable payment plans that enable them to maintain electric service and move them toward self-sufficiency. CARES assists customers who have had their electric services terminated or are at risk of having their service terminated. Also screens for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and Dollar Energy Fund.

Provides emergency financial assistance to eligible PA service members and their eligible family members, and must have a direct and immediate financial need as a result of circumstances beyond their control.

Provides emergency assistance such as help with emergency food, rent and utilities on a case by case basis contingent upon available funds. Also makes referrals to other county agencies and programs.