How to apply for the West Virginia weatherization assistance program
The West Virginia weatherization assistance program pays to seal and insulate homes so they lose less heat and cost less to heat through the winter. The West Virginia Community Advancement and Development division of the state Department of Economic Development runs the program, and set its funding for the program year that runs from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 at 4,052,080 dollars, the same figure stated in its own draft state plan and repeated on its own public program page. West Virginia does not take applications directly. A resident instead contacts one of the local nonprofit Community Action Agencies that provide weatherization services in all 55 of the state counties, or applies online through a portal named mylitt.com.
Who qualifies and how much a household can earn
A West Virginia household qualifies if its income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines, the government measure that sets the income cutoff for many assistance programs. That works out to 31,300 dollars a year for a household of 1, 64,300 dollars for a household of 4, and 11,000 dollars more for each additional person, so a household of 2 can earn up to 42,300 dollars and a household of 3 up to 53,300 dollars. The program also gives priority to a household with a high energy burden, meaning 20% or more of its income goes to paying for energy, or a high energy user, meaning it spends 2,100 dollars or more a year on energy, plus households with elderly members, disabled members, or children.
The limits for household sizes 2 and 3 are this site own calculation, applying the rule West Virginia states for the program, that each additional household member adds 11,000 dollars to the limit for a household of 1, 31,300 dollars. That arithmetic reaches 64,300 dollars for a household of 4 exactly, matching the limit West Virginia states directly for that household size.
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| Household of 1 | 31,300 |
| Household of 2 | 42,300 |
| Household of 3 | 53,300 |
| Household of 4 | 64,300 |
Where the 4,052,080 dollars actually goes
The draft plan West Virginia filed with the Department of Energy breaks that total down inside 1 table. After 1,728,979 dollars for administration, staff training, financial audits, insurance, and health and safety work, 2,323,104 dollars is left to actually weatherize homes. The plan divides that remaining amount by an average cost of 7,676 dollars to weatherize 1 home, and its own arithmetic reaches 297 homes as the total it aims to weatherize this program year, a calculation visible only by reading the agency own planning table rather than any summary of it.
The available to weatherize homes line and the administration line are the 2 components the state plan itself lists inside 1 table, and they sum to the 4,052,080 dollar total exactly.
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| Total state allocation | 4,052,080 |
| Available to weatherize homes | 2,323,104 |
| Administration, training, audits, insurance and safety | 1,728,979 |
The federal formula behind the money
The amount West Virginia receives is not decided by the state itself. A formula written into title 10, part 440.10 of the Code of Federal Regulations sets it using 3 factors, how many people live in the state, how cold or hot its climate runs, and how much its residents already spend on energy. Congress funded the whole program nationally through H.R. 6938, a spending law President Donald Trump signed January 23, 2026, which gave the weatherization assistance program a combined 369,000,000 dollars to spend across every state for program year 2026.
What weatherization saves nationally
Nationally, the Department of Energy says weatherization work 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 nearest sourced figure available since none of the 5 sources states a savings amount specific to West Virginia.