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OMB Control No: 0970-0486	ICR Reference No: 202604-0970-011
Status: Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202005-0970-008
Agency/Subagency: HHS/ACF	Agency Tracking No: OCS
Title: 2024-2025 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Data Match
Type of Information Collection: Reinstatement with change of a previously approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 06/24/2026
	Date Received in OIRA: 05/05/2026
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2027	15 Months From Approved
Responses	51	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	816	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) block grant (42 U.S.C. 8621) was established under Title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Public Law 97-35. The Office of Community Services (OCS) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) administers LIHEAP at the federal level. The LIHEAP statute requires the program to collect data on beneficiary and eligible households, 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. The collection of this data is authorized by 42 U.S.C. §8629(a) of the LIHEAP statute, which requires the Secretary of HHS, following consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to provide for the collection of specific information on the characteristics of LIHEAP beneficiary and LIHEAP eligible households within each state. This includes collecting information that is reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of the LIHEAP statute if that information is not collected by any other agency of the federal government. OCS uses a number of existing data sources to develop information on households that are income-eligible for LIHEAP. These include the following: • The Department of Energy’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) (OMB Control Number 1905-0092), which provides the most accurate information available about the demographic, economic, and energy-usage characteristics of U.S. households; and • State administrative data, which provide the most accurate information about LIHEAP beneficiary households and which flow into the LIHEAP Household Report (OMB Control No. 0970-0060). Neither the RECS nor the state administrative data alone provides information about the demographic, economic, and energy-usage characteristics of LIHEAP beneficiary households. (RECS’ self-reported information on receipt of energy assistance is too unreliable for this purpose.) The only data that provides such information is that from the RECS respondents which the state administrative data demonstrates received LIHEAP benefits. The purpose of this request is to reinstate, with changes, the LIHEAP RECS Data Match to allow OCS to collect administrative household data for use in identifying LIHEAP beneficiaries that respond to the upcoming 2024-2025 RECS. The Department of Energy is planning to conduct the next iteration in 2024 and early 2025. The proposed data collection mirrors the previously approved version with updates to remove eight data elements from the prior data collection in FY 2021 that are no longer needed: household name, household telephone number, date of heating assistance, date of cooling assistance, date of crisis assistance, other assistance awarded, amount of other assistance, and date of other assistance.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 42 USC 8623(c) Name of Law: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
   US Code: 42 USC 8624(b)(5) Name of Law: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
   US Code: 42 USC 8629(a) Name of Law: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
   US Code: 42 USC 8629(b)(2) Name of Law: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
   US Code: 42 USC 8623(a)(4) Name of Law: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	91 FR 6847	02/13/2026
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	91 FR 24245	05/05/2026
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
2024-2025 LIHEAP RECS Data Match	1

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	51	51
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	816	816
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The previous ICR approval was discontinued in 2023. This request seeks to reinstate the OMB number, with changes compared to the most recent approval. OCS is proposing changes to collect timely data for FY24 and FY25 (corresponding to the RECS 2024 fielding period) and to remove eight data elements that are no longer needed. The estimated time per response decreased from 24 hours to 16 hours per response/respondent.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $60,252

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Molly Buck 202 205-4724 mary.buck@acf.hhs.gov

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