Rule 18-24-8.5 - LIHEAP Performance MeasuresThe Office of Community Services (OCS) is required by the LIHEAP statute to report to Congress on program impacts annually, to develop performance goals, to ensure that benefits are targeted to those households with the greatest home energy need, and to assure that timely resources are available to households experiencing home energy crises. OCS published a Federal Register notice on June 6, 2013, announcing their intent to seek authorization to require state LIHEAP grantees to report on several new outcome based LIHEAP performance measures. OCS is now proposing to collect annual data that will establish four performance indicators of the impact of LIHEAP services on its recipients. The data collected will be synthesized to create the following performance measures:
A. Benefit Targeting Index for High Burden Households - measures the extent to which the highest benefits are provided to the LIHEAP recipient households with the highest energy burden (the percent of gross income spent on utility costs);B. Energy Burden Reduction Index for High Burden Households - measures the extent to which LIHEAP benefits are adequate to deliver the same energy burden reduction to high burden recipient households as to low and moderate burden recipient households;C. Prevention of Loss of Home Energy Services - the unduplicated count of households where LIHEAP prevented the loss of home energy services; andD. Restoration of Home Energy Services - the unduplicated count of households where LIHEAP restored home energy services to the client. Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-2(4); Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-4 Revised: May 2022