Assistance in paying heating to families with low income should be abolished completely, believe in the President’s Administration. The argument of the White house in an existing program are too many loopholes for fraud and «no one will freeze, if it is undone.»
The program known as Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)helps low-income households to pay heating bills. Assistance is allocated in a certain amount, which goes directly to utilities or providers of heat.
In 2017, Donald trump has tried to eliminate the program, but met resistance in Congress, the Associated Press reports. LIHEAP supporters argue that it is vital for older people, disabled people and many other citizens who are in material.
«If the President will kill this program, I have no idea how we will survive the winter,» says unemployed Dwayne Labretlost due to diabetes leg. The man lives in Maine with his girlfriend and 5 children. According to him, this winter, the LIHEAP program, they received about $1,000.
Labrec — a supporter of trump, however, if the President «kill» the program, next time vote for him will not.
Senator Bernie Sanders said that the administration is trump «creates a situation in which some people can freeze».
By the way, LIHEAP helps Americans not only to winter. Languishing in the heat, the residents of Florida and Arizona in its framework, get help with the installation in buildings of air conditioning systems.
Only the U.S. program LIHEAP get help 6 million households.
