Kentucky weatherization assistance program income eligibility set at 200% of federal poverty level for 2026

Kentucky weatherization assistance program income eligibility

Kentucky weatherization assistance program income eligibility is set at 200% of the federal poverty level, the government income threshold many assistance programs use to decide who qualifies, according to Kentucky Housing Corporation own 2026 state plan filing to the United States Department of Energy. The program pays to seal and insulate a home so it loses less heat and costs less to heat through the winter. A household also qualifies automatically, regardless of income, if a member already receives cash payments through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program, disability payments through Supplemental Security Income, or home heating bill help through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, within the past 12 months.

Kentucky Housing Corporation runs the program, not a heating agency

Kentucky Housing Corporation, the state housing finance agency, administers the weatherization program. Kentucky Housing Corporation is a quasi state agency, administratively attached to state government under the Finance Cabinet but funded through no state operating budget, its own filing states. Kentucky Housing Corporation has run federal housing programs since 1972, and took over the federally and state funded weatherization program in 2009. A Kentucky resident does not apply to Kentucky Housing Corporation directly, and instead contacts one of 23 subgrantee community action agencies that do the weatherization work across the state, Kentucky Housing Corporation own subgrantee filing states.

7,140,170 dollars to weatherize 433 homes

Kentucky Housing Corporation set 7,140,170 dollars in new federal money for its weatherization program for the year running July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, enough to weatherize 433 homes statewide, 430 new and 3 reweatherized, its own federal budget filing states. Dividing the 3,807,819 dollars set aside for the work itself by the 433 homes gives a planned average cost of 8,794.04 dollars a home, Kentucky Housing Corporation own production schedule states. Awards to the 23 subgrantee agencies range from 544,085 dollars for 28 homes at Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Incorporated in Covington to 208,406 dollars for 10 homes at Tri County Community Action Agency Incorporated in LaGrange.

Kentucky federal total matches the formula exactly

Kentucky states its new federal weatherization total as 7,140,170 dollars in its own budget filing to the Department of Energy. The federal government own separate formula notice lists a Total Allocation of 6,542,223 dollars and a Weatherization Readiness Fund allocation of 597,947 dollars for Kentucky, kept in separate columns. Added together, those 2 federal figures equal 7,140,170 dollars exactly, matching Kentucky own claimed total to the dollar, a match visible only by reading both filings directly. Congress funded the program nationally through H.R. 6938, signed January 23, 2026, and a formula in title 10, part 440.10 of the Code of Federal Regulations sets each state share using population, climate, and how much residents already spend on energy.

What weatherization saves nationally

Nationally, the Department of Energy says the weatherization program reaches about 32,000 homes a year, supports 8,500 jobs, and has helped more than 7.2 million families since the program began in 1976. A household that gets the work done saves 372 dollars or more a year on its energy bill, the agency states. Kentucky also caps health and safety repairs, such as fixing electrical hazards or mold that would otherwise stop a home from being weatherized at all, at an average of 4,000 dollars a home, generally no more than 20% of the total average cost per home, its own state plan states.