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Washington Department of Commerce and local community action agencies

Washington LIHEAP and state home energy assistance: Opportunity Council LIHEAP

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

Help paying power bills and heating fuel costs through LIHEAP.

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We use your saved answers and ask only what is missing. You review and sign before anything is sent.

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Who can apply

  • Check LIHEAP rules with Opportunity Council.

Documents to gather

  • Household identity information

    • Names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers for household members. You may still qualify without an SSN.

  • Latest utility bills or lease

    • Latest utility bills or access to the lease.

  • Income for the month before the appointment

    • Income from earnings, Social Security or SSI, VA, TANF, GA or ABD, odd jobs, cash work, work for rent, unemployment, L&I, paid family or medical leave, child support, alimony, rental income and self-employment.
The questions on the application (20)

  • Is your household responsible for a heating or electric bill?

    Yes · No

  • Is your household income at or below the income limit for your household size? · if it applies

    Yes · No

  • What County do you live in? · if it applies

    Island County · Whatcom County · San Juan County

  • You appear to be over income for LIHEAP Assistance. To see if you are eligible for State HEAP, do you have an electricity account in your name? · if it applies

    Yes · No

  • What County do you live in? · if it applies

    Island County · Whatcom County · San Juan County

  • Is your income at or below the following income guidelines for your household? · if it applies

    Yes · No

  • Is your income at or below the following income guidelines for your household? · if it applies

    Yes · No

  • Is your income at or below the following income guidelines for your household? · if it applies

    Yes · No

  • First · optional

  • Last · optional

  • Zip code where you are living: · optional

  • What is the best way to contact you? · optional

    Phone · Email

  • Email address · optional · if it applies

  • Phone number · optional · if it applies

  • Is it okay to leave a detailed voicemail or send a detailed email message? · optional

    Yes · No

  • What language would you like us to communicate with you in? · optional

    English · Spanish · Ukrainian · Russian · Punjabi · Other

  • Other Choice, please specify · optional · if it applies

  • Have you recently received a disconnect notice from the power company? · optional

    Yes · No

  • Are you currently out of heating fuel? · optional

    Yes · No

  • Any additional notes for Opportunity Council? · optional

After you apply
  • Opportunity Council helps complete and submit the program application during the appointment.
  • Federal LIHEAP allows states to use categorical benefit status or income ceilings. Washington publishes its own 150% federal poverty guideline rule. The federal ceiling is not a replacement for local eligibility review.
  • Opportunity Council can reconsider a decision through its grievance form.
Before you send it
  • Opportunity Council says you may still qualify without a Social Security number.
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.
  • Appointment availability was not checked. The prescreen is not a completed benefit application.
  • The October 8 program page lists $1,995 for one person, while the scheduling form lists $1,956. Confirm the current LIHEAP limits.

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