Help With Your Electric Bill in Nevada: Energy Assistance Program

No winter-only campaign. The EAP program year begins July 1 and applications are accepted through June 30. The current year is FY2027, July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027, and it is OPEN today. Applications are evaluated year round 'or until funding is exhausted', so it can close early. Households that received a benefit last year may not reapply until roughly 11 months after their last benefit.

Dates move every year and most states stop taking applications when the money runs out, not on the closing date. Checked Sep 10, 2026 — confirm before you count on it.

Nevada does not run a classic crisis grant; it runs three specialized components. FAST-TRACK is the one for an imminent cut-off: expedited processing for households whose energy source is in danger of being interrupted, requiring among other things an unexpected loss or reduction of income in the last 2 to 5 months of at least 15% of gross household income. The ARREARAGE PAYMENT component clears past-due heating or cooling charges, once every five years, when funding allows. The CRISIS INTERVENTION component is for households with a chronic or long-term illness whose out-of-pocket medical costs bring income down to 150% of poverty or below. For any of them, contact the local EAP office listed at https://www.dss.nv.gov/contact/.

Online through the DWSS application, or on paper. Printable forms (including a vision-impaired version and a Spanish version) are at https://www.dss.nv.gov/programs/energy/apply-for-assistance/. Paper applications are also handed out at any EAP office, any Social Services office, the Customer Service Unit, or one of the Intake Sites across the state, which will also help you fill it in and mail it. Completed applications go by mail, by fax, into a DSS drop box or lobby, or by email to [email protected].

An annual, one-time-per-year benefit, normally paid straight to the energy provider. No dollar range is published on the state pages. Funded from both the federal LIHEAP block grant and the state Universal Energy Charge.

Proof of ALL income for EVERY person in the household for at least the last 30 days; proof of identity for the head of household; proof of citizenship or legal status if born outside the United States; copies of the most recent heating and cooling bills; if the bill is not in your name, a signed written statement from the person on it authorising you to apply, with their address and phone; and, if expenses exceed income, proof of how the household is meeting its needs.

Not a seasonal moratorium. Nevada Administrative Code 704.3934 requires PUCN-regulated utilities to POSTPONE a termination that would fall in a forecasted period of extreme temperature — defined for heat as any 24 hours in which the National Weather Service forecasts 105F or higher. The regulation also covers a forecasted period of extreme cold, but the exact cold threshold was NOT verified on an official Nevada source in this session; treat it as unconfirmed. NAC chapter: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/NAC-704.html

This comes from the Nevada utility commission, not from the energy assistance programme — they are different offices and only one of them publishes it.

The 11-month re-application rule matters: a household helped in, say, February cannot come back the following November. Note the domain moved from dwss.nv.gov to dss.nv.gov; old dwss.nv.gov links still circulate.

In most states the same office runs SNAP food benefits, and receiving one often makes the other automatic or faster. SNAP in Nevada →