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Electricity, Fuel and Weatherisation Help — No Veteran Door, but a Wide Discount

There is no veteran route, veteran priority or veteran discount in the state’s electric, fuel or weatherisation assistance. All three run on one income test: 60% of state median income, which for a single-person household is $48,713 as of May 2026. What makes applying worth it anyway is the electricity discount itself, which runs from 5% to 86% depending on income and household size.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

What it's worth: No veteran route — an income-tested electricity discount of 5% to 86%, plus fuel and weatherisation help, all at 60% of state median income

The department states the electricity assistance discount ranges from 5% to 86%, depending on the customer’s gross household income and household size.
The programme is a twelve month bill assistance programme, and benefits are subject to the availability of funds.
Eligibility requires an electric bill from a regulated electric utility — the department names Eversource, Unitil, Liberty and NHEC — and a qualifying gross household income at the time of application.
The discount is funded by all electric customers through the system benefits charge portion of the electric bill.
The department states the income eligibility threshold for the electric, fuel and weatherisation programmes is 60% of state median income.
The department publishes the 60% of state median income figures updated 28 May 2026 as: one person $48,713; two $63,702; three $78,691; four $93,680; five $108,668; six $123,657; seven $126,468; eight $129,278; nine $132,088; ten $134,899.
For households over ten persons the department directs applicants to their local Community Action Agency.
Fuel and weatherisation eligibility is based on gross household income and on the applicant’s primary place of residence being in the state; other factors can include household size, the vulnerability of the residents, and whether the household is responsible for energy costs of $100 or more.
All homeowners and renters are eligible to apply for the fuel and weatherisation programmes, including renters whose heat is included in their rent.
Applications for all three programmes go through the local Community Action Agency, and the department states eligibility can usually be determined during one visit.
The department states these programmes prohibit discrimination based on race, colour, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, and mental or physical disability — a list that does not include veteran status either as a protected class or as a priority.
The pages read this session make no mention of veterans, military service, or any service-connected route into any of the three programmes.

Who is entitled to it

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How to claim it

1Apply on income, not on service. There is no veteran door into any of these three programmes, and asking for one delays the application that would actually work.
2Check the threshold before assuming you earn too much. At 60% of state median income a single-person household qualifies up to $48,713 and a four-person household up to $93,680 — considerably higher than most people expect an assistance programme to reach.
3Apply even if you are near the line. The electricity discount is banded from 5% to 86%, so a household just under the ceiling still gets something rather than nothing.
4Confirm your electricity supplier is one of the four regulated utilities named. Customers of an unregulated supplier are outside the electricity programme, though the fuel and weatherisation programmes are not tied to the same list.
5Renters should apply too, including those whose heat is included in the rent — the department states expressly that they are eligible for the fuel and weatherisation programmes.
6Go through your local Community Action Agency rather than the department. That is where eligibility is determined, often in a single visit.
7Remember that VA compensation and pension are income for a gross-income test. A rating increase can move a household across a threshold, and it is worth checking both numbers together.

Form: One application through the local Community Action Agency
File with: Your local Community Action Agency
Annual: Claimed once a year.

CorrectionVeteran-specific utility discounts are widely assumed to exist and largely do not. That holds here: the department’s eligibility page runs entirely on household income, and neither of the pages read this session mentions veterans at all. What exists is a general programme a veteran household may well qualify for on income alone.

Worth knowingThe 86% top of the electricity discount band is the number worth carrying away. That is not a token reduction — for the lowest-income households it removes most of the bill, and it renews on a twelve month cycle rather than as a one-off crisis payment.

Known gapThis record establishes the absence of a veteran route in the state programmes. It says nothing about what an individual utility may offer on its own account, and no utility tariff was examined this session.

Sources

authority · published policyDepartment of Energy — assistance programs eligibility, income guidelines updated 28 May 2026
operating · published policyDepartment of Energy — Electric Assistance Program

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