Financial Assistance Program

Financial Assistance Program is sponsored by CoServ Charitable Foundation. This program provides support to qualifying Members and Customers experiencing financial hardship to help pay their utility bills.

Financial Assistance - CoServ. com When financial challenges arise, help is available. This page connects you with a range of trusted resources designed to support individuals and families facing hardship.

In addition to local community organizations, you'll find information about state and federal assistance programs and other support services that may help with essentials such as utilities, housing, food, medical care, and emergency needs. Each program has its own eligibility requirements, but together they offer pathways to relief and stability when you need it most.

Local Utility Assistance: Services Offered: Utility assistance and support services Service Area: Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar, Mario, Morris, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, and Titus counties.

About : The TCOG mission is to improve the quality of life in Texoma by connecting clients to essential social services and by providing member jurisdictions with planning assistance. Website : Texoma Council of Governments (TCOG) Services Offered: Early Head Start, Head Start, utility and rental assistance, and financial literacy programs.

Service Area : Erath, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, and Wise Counties About : Texas Neighborhood Services' mission is to seek out, identify, and aid in eliminating the causes of poverty by delivering comprehensive human services that are responsive to the needs & values of the children, families, individuals and the community they serve.

Website : Texas Neighborhood Services (TNS) Services Offered: Utility Assistance Service Area : Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Tarrant, Wise, Kaufman About : This program provides support to qualifying Members and Customers experiencing financial hardship to help pay their utility bills. The CoServ Charitable Foundation is committed to helping our community by providing support to Members and Customers who qualify.

Website : Financial Assistance Application If you only need additional time to pay your bill, you can also request a payment due‑date extension . State and Federal Assistance: Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program The Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) is a utility assistance program.

CEAP is designed to assist low-income households in meeting their immediate energy needs and to encourage consumers to control energy costs for years to come through energy education. The CEAP involves the integration of all LIHEAP-funded programs, thereby enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided to clients and eliminating duplication of services.

The CEAP is administered through subrecipients, which collectively cover all 254 counties of the state. Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program Homeowners and renters can use this website to create an account and apply for assistance.

Help for Texans is administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) with funding from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and federal Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP). The program provides eligible households with financial payments made directly to the utility company on the household's behalf.

Brazos Electric Ratepayer Hardship Fund The Brazos Electric Ratepayer Hardship Fund provides bill credits to eligible low-income residential Members to help offset some of the financial impacts due to the high costs incurred during Winter Storm Uri. Click here for additional information about the program , including eligibility requirements, and to submit your application.

Brazos Electric Ratepayer Hardship Fund Texas Department of Community Affairs The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs is the state agency responsible for affordable housing, community and energy assistance programs, colonia activities, and regulation of the state's manufactured housing industry.

The Department currently administers $2 billion through for-profit, nonprofit, and local government partnerships to deliver local housing and community-based opportunities and assistance to Texans in need. The overwhelming majority of the Department's resources are derived from mortgage revenue bond financing and refinancing, federal grants, and federal tax credits.

All TDHCA divisions regularly interact with other state and federal agencies, the state legislature, housing and community development organizations, community assistance agencies, lending institutions, real estate interests, the media, and other public sources.

Texas Department of Community Affairs Bill Payment Assistance for Burned Veterans U.S. military veterans burned in combat and residing in the CoServ Electric service area may qualify for bill-payment assistance from May to October in conjunction with Senate Bill 981 . Download the eligibility requirements and application here .

Weatherization Assistance Program TDHCA operates the Weatherization Assistance Program with funds from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). WAP is designed to help low income customers control their energy costs through installation of weatherization materials and education.

The program goal is to reduce the energy cost burden of low income households through energy efficiency. The WAP is administered through subrecipients, which collectively cover all 254 counties of the state. Want to learn about energy saving weatherization measures you can do yourself?

Visit TDHCA's Home Weatherization Tips for Energy Savings page The WAP is authorized by Part A of the Energy Conservation in Existing Buildings Act of 1976, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 6861 et seq.

and Texas Government Code Section 2306. 097. The WAP program follows the U.S. Department of Energy regulations codified in 10 CFR Part 440 and 600, and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, as amended, 42 U.S.C.

Sec. 8621 et seq. and the implementing regulations of 45 C.

F. R. Part 96.

Weatherization Assistance Program CoServ partners with a network of local social service agencies that provide a wide range of support to individuals and families throughout our service area. While CoServ's Financial Assistance Program focuses on helping eligible Members and Customers with utility bills, those seeking help with other needs-such as food, housing, medical services, or emergency aid-can explore the resources listed below.

Services Offered : Income Support Services (such as food, clothing, housing, and utility assistance, medical visits and prescription assistance) and Education and Employment Services (including GED classes, college assistance, financial literacy, and career counseling) Service Area : North Texas About : All Community Outreach (ACO) began in 1985.

ACO's mission is to transform lives by providing essential human and social services in its communities. ACO provides free comprehensive human services to help families avoid hunger and homelessness and gain financial security. Website : All Community Outreach (ACO) Christian Community Action (CCA) Service Area : Denton County, Frisco ISD, and Coppell ISD.

Services Offered: Access to CCA's client-choice food pantry, critical rental and utility assistance, seasonal income relief programs, senior services, essential life skills and job readiness training, pastoral and professional counseling. About : Christian Community Action (CCA) ministers to the poor by providing comprehensive services that alleviate suffering, bring hope and change lives.

CCA provides comprehensive rescue, relief, and restorative services that aim to fully equip struggling clients with the skills and resources that they need to transition from financial crisis to self-sufficiency.

Website : Christian Community Action (CCA) Service Areas: City of Frisco, Frisco ISD Services Offered: Emergency financial assistance (rent, utilities, child care, employment support, prescription meds), Frisco's Food Pantry, life skills classes, clients also have access to get vouchers for clothing and household goods from Frisco Resale, and seasonal programs.

Website : Frisco Family Services (FFS) Service Area: Cooke County Services Offered: Food pantry, Backpack Buddy program (provides backpacks full of nutritious mini-meals that are sent home on the weekends with school-aged children), Pathways program (life-skills training), and crisis assistance (preventing homelessness, keeping the lights and heat on, emergency dental and prescription assistance).

About : VISTO's mission is to help people in times of crisis get back on their feet through four main categories: food, financial, education, and/or information and referral. VISTO operates and maintains Cooke County's emergency food bank. Website : Volunteers in Service For Others (VISTO)