Washington Department of Commerce and local community action agencies
Washington LIHEAP and state home energy assistance: Byrd Barr Place SHEAP
Washington energy assistance is handled by local agencies. LIHEAP and the state-funded SHEAP have separate income rules. Seattle utility discounts are a separate program.
Call to confirm it is openChecked October 11, 2026
State-funded help with energy bills, energy needs and safer, more efficient heating and cooling.
Apply
We use your saved answers and ask only what is missing. You review and sign before anything is sent.
Who can apply
- The agency must check SHEAP income and intake.
After you apply
- Byrd Barr Place reviews the application, a different advocate validates it, and the state reviews awarded applications before a utility payment.
- Keep paying your bills while waiting. Ask your utility for a payment arrangement if needed.
- SHEAP is supported by Washington’s Climate Commitment Act and uses an 80% area median income rule.
- Send missing information within 90 days of signing. Otherwise the application expires.
- A grant may take one or two billing cycles to appear. A direct-payment check may take six to eight weeks after processing.
- The agency says applications with a disconnect notice are processed within 72 hours. Contact the agency for urgent help.
- Byrd Barr Place may award or reject the application after validation.
- Byrd Barr Place contacts you when required documents or information are missing.
Before you send it
- You do not need a shutoff notice to apply for LIHEAP.
What we could not check
- Check current funding and appointment availability with the agency. No exact closing day is supplied.
- The Google Drive blank Byrd Barr Place packet could be viewed by title, but robots.txt disallows the public download path. No PDF placement or recipe was made.
- The live e-signature and confirmation steps after Submit were not visited. Never submit made-up people.
- Staff-only and hidden legacy fields are preserved only in byrd-fields.txt. The hidden LIHWAP branch says it ended in March 2024 and must not become current water assistance.
- The current fact contract cannot represent selected text-list membership, nested repeat records, or computed client-side helper conditions. Such conditions remain unknown.
- The current schema cannot attach conditions to attestations. No-income, DSHS and PSE declarations are preserved with their original wording, but must stay in their printed conditional branches. No separate required-field helpText field or notes field exists. Printed help and conditions remain in the cached field extraction and numbered form text.
- The schema has no phone or email submission method. Those documented channels are named in the submission instructions.
- Opportunity Council’s actual appointment interview, consent text and signed benefit application are not public here. Only its appointment prescreen and contact form are captured.
- Chart, contact and form-availability conflicts are logged in data/source-issues.json. The program page lists 360-255-2192 for Island scheduling, while the scheduler lists 360-639-8876. The exact Opportunity Council countable-income calculation is not captured; do not assume Byrd Barr Place’s earned-income deduction applies.
- The page says SHEAP is open, but its linked form says it is not available. Current intake is unknown.
- SHEAP is funded by Washington’s Climate Commitment Act. Do not apply federal LIHEAP limits or its annual grant exclusion to this separate program.