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Delaware State Public Benefit Funds

• An annual $800,000 contribution from Conectiv funds low-income energy assistance, weatherization and furnace replacements. The Department of Health and Social Services, Division of State Service Centers, the LIHEAP grantee, administers the fund as a program that is separate from LIHEAP, mostly for clients at or above 150 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
  
  
• SB 93, signed June 2003, allowed for a $1 million transfer from the Environmental Incentive Fund to the low-income program fund. This one-time appropriation will be used to offset arrearages of Conectiv customers.
  
  See electric utility restructuring.

LEVERAGING

2004: $662,750
2003: $1.7 million
2002: $826,014
2001: $555,841

Page last updated: October 21, 2011