Increase payments made to households through the existing Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

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Further, LIHEAP subsidies would not provide any additional incentives for households to work and invest.

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These funds represent additional grants to states under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

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And in the case of LIHEAP, I went through a rather detailed explanation of why the funding level was chosen.

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Increasing LIHEAP subsidies could raise the overall cost of achieving any given level of emission reductions, because it would somewhat offset the price signals necessary to motivate households to undertake low-cost reductions.

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The federal government also provides means tested assistance through multiple programs for child care, education, job training, and the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the Social Services Block Grant, the Community Services Block Grant, and the Legal Services Corporation, among other programs.

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On the LIHEAP program, the home heating assistance program, we doubled the home heating assistance program when I first came into office, in part because there was a huge energy spike, and so folks -- if we had just kept it at the same level, folks would have been in real trouble.

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