Washington Department of Commerce and local community action agencies
Washington LIHEAP and state home energy assistance: Opportunity Council State HEAP
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 assistance with electricity bills and energy efficiency improvements.
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 county income and appointments.
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.
- SHEAP is supported by Washington’s Climate Commitment Act and uses an 80% area median income rule.
- 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.
- State HEAP appointment availability is unknown. County income limits differ between the agency program page and scheduler.