{"id":6893,"date":"2010-01-21T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-announce-54-million-to-help-oregon-families-pay-utility-bills\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:29","slug":"wyden-merkley-announce-54-million-to-help-oregon-families-pay-utility-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-announce-54-million-to-help-oregon-families-pay-utility-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden y Merkley anuncian $5.4 millones para ayudar a las familias de Oreg\u00f3n a pagar las facturas de servicios p\u00fablicos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>Washington DC<\/strong> \u2013 Continuando con los esfuerzos para ayudar a los residentes de bajos ingresos a pagar sus facturas de servicios p\u00fablicos, los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) y Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) anunciaron hoy que, en respuesta a una carta firmada por ambos senadores, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos liberar\u00e1 m\u00e1s de $5.4 millones a Oreg\u00f3n en fondos de contingencia para el Programa de Asistencia de Energ\u00eda para Hogares de Bajos Ingresos (LIHEAP). La financiaci\u00f3n ayudar\u00e1 directamente a los hogares de bajos ingresos a pagar sus facturas de servicios p\u00fablicos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEste financiamiento literalmente mantendr\u00e1 las luces encendidas para miles de habitantes de Oreg\u00f3n que luchan en este momento para pagar sus facturas de servicios p\u00fablicos\u201d, dijo Wyden. \u201cLa inyecci\u00f3n de fondos en el programa LIHEAP proporcionar\u00e1 un efecto positivo directo para las familias de Oreg\u00f3n; ayud\u00e1ndoles a estirar sus presupuestos dom\u00e9sticos y liberando dinero para cubrir el costo de otros elementos esenciales como alimentos y medicinas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnumerables familias de Oreg\u00f3n viven de cheque en cheque y tienen dificultades para pagar sus facturas mensuales\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cLa asistencia del programa LIHEAP mantendr\u00e1 calientes los hogares de los habitantes de Oreg\u00f3n este invierno y ayudar\u00e1 a aliviar la carga financiera del aumento de los costos de los servicios p\u00fablicos\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>El Programa de Asistencia de Energ\u00eda para Hogares de Bajos Ingresos fue creado en 1981 para ayudar a los residentes de bajos ingresos a cubrir sus facturas de servicios p\u00fablicos. El programa ayuda a las familias elegibles a pagar la calefacci\u00f3n, el aire acondicionado y otros costos de energ\u00eda, as\u00ed como la climatizaci\u00f3n del hogar. En 2008, el programa proporcion\u00f3 financiamiento a m\u00e1s de 8 millones de hogares en todo el pa\u00eds. A principios de este mes, los senadores Wyden y Merkley se unieron a otros 46 colegas del Senado en una carta bipartidista instando a la administraci\u00f3n a liberar los fondos de contingencia incluidos en la Ley de Asignaciones Consolidadas firmada por el presidente a fines de diciembre. En la carta, los senadores argumentaron que liberar los fondos ahora ayudar\u00eda a miles de hogares de bajos ingresos y servir\u00eda como un multiplicador econ\u00f3mico, liberando dinero para otros elementos esenciales como alimentos y medicinas. La financiaci\u00f3n de contingencia se suma a la financiaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica que ya est\u00e1n recibiendo los estados.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Continuing efforts to help low-income residents pay their utility bills, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) announced today that in response to a letter signed by both senators, the Department of Health and Human Services will release more than $5.4 million to Oregon in contingency funding for the Low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[76,44],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-energy-independence","tag-jobs-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wyden, Merkley Announce $5.4 million To Help Oregon Families Pay Utility Bills - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-announce-54-million-to-help-oregon-families-pay-utility-bills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wyden, Merkley Announce $5.4 million To Help Oregon Families Pay Utility Bills - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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