SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

In accordance with section 2607(b)(1) of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, as amended, (the Act) (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(1)), ACF published a notice in the Federal Register on July 25, 2025, 90 FR 35304, announcing the Secretary's preliminary determination that $2,425,645 of FY24 funds for LIHEAP may be available for reallotment. ACF received no comments on this notice. After publication, ACF reduced this amount to $2,293,415 because of (1) reporting revisions made by recipients. ACF redistributed $2,293,415 of these funds as though they were appropriated for FY25, in accordance with section 2607(b)(2)(C) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 8626(b)(2)(C)).

The $2,293,415 became available from the following recipients in the following amounts:

The list of recipients that were awarded these funds was published on OCS's website here: https://acf.gov/​ocs/​programs/​liheap/​funding-releases/​reallotment-liheap-funding-release-ffy-2025.

Pursuant to the statute cited above, these funds were reallotted on September 19, 2025, to all the FY25 LIHEAP grant recipients, except 13 states and 66 tribes, by distributing them under the formula that Congress set for FY25 funding. The three types of recipients that did not receive funds were (1) those whose allocations would have been less than $25 ( see45 CFR 96.81(c)), (2) tribes or tribal organizations that agreed with their co-territorial states to receive set amounts for the entire fiscal year ( see42 U.S.C. 8623(d)(2)), and (3) states whose FY25 funding amounts met the state's full-year floors specified by the FY25 regular appropriations. No subrecipients of these recipients or other entities may apply for these funds.

The reallotted funds may be used for any purpose authorized under LIHEAP. Recipients must add these funds to their total LIHEAP funds payable for FY25 for purposes of calculating statutory caps on administrative costs, carryover, Assurance 16 activities, and weatherization assistance. Recipients must also: (1) ensure that these funds are included in the amounts that ACF pre-populates on Line 1.1 of their FY25 Carryover and Reallotment Reports; (2) reconcile these funds on the associated Federal Financial Report (FFR), to the extent that they received them, with all other sources that ACF categorized under an award number ending in “LIEA”; and (3) record, on their FY25 Household Reports, households that receive benefits at least partly from these funds. State recipients must also ensure that these funds are included in the Grantee Survey sections of their FY25 LIHEAP Performance Data Forms.

OCS recommends that, after receiving them, recipients obligate these funds before obligating any other federal LIHEAP funds.

Statutory Authority:42 U.S.C. 8626(b).

91 FR 3893