More on Long Island seek help to pay for heating
Quick ReadOfficials say the numbers of households getting help are up by 22 percent over a year earlier in Suffolk and 2 percent in Nassau.
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Lenny Spano of Hart Oil makes a home heating oil delivery. (March 15, 2011)
Despite mild temperatures so far this winter, home-heating oil has stayed above $4 a gallon and more than 55,000 Long Islanders -- an increase from last year -- are getting help from the federal government and private charities to pay for it.
The Nassau and Suffolk county departments of social services, which administer the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program locally, say the...
