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Michigan State Public Benefit Funds for Rate Assistance

Michigan's 2000 restructuring law legislation created the Low-Income Energy and Efficiency (LIEE) fund to provide energy payment assistance and fund energy efficiency programs. In October 2004, the Public Service Commission approved grants totaling $20 million from the Fund. The Family Independence Agency (FIA), the LIHEAP grantee, received $10 million for low-income households to restore their energy services (if disconnected), and to prevent threatened shut-offs of energy services. Other major energy assistance grants went to the following:

• Michigan Community Action Agency Association: $2.5 million for direct heating assistance and deliverable fuels programs for low-income households
  
  
• Salvation Army: $3.4 million to serve households statewide that are ineligible for assistance from FIA or for whom such assistance is insufficient or not available
  
  
• THAW (The Heat and Warmth Fund of Detroit): $3.4 million for the THAW Safety Net Program

See electric utility restructuring.

LEGISLATIVE CODE

U-13129 - Low-Income and Energy Efficiency Fund) - 2/21/2002

Page Last Updated: January 27, 2010