Hometown Care Energy Fund

Every day, families face difficult choices: Food or medicine? Which bills to pay or let lapse? This year, the stress is even greater. 

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic:

• About one in six U.S. workers has filed for unemployment.
• One in three households has struggled to pay regular expenses, including heating bills.

When you donate to the Hometown Care Energy Fund, your neighbors receive help to pay their utility bills. That means they stay comfortable through the holidays – and have less due in back payments when they’re able to pay again.

Funds go directly to your neighbors in need, administered by local community action programs that know their communities best.

Last year, Alliant Energy employees, retirees, shareowners and people like you contributed over $4 million.

Hometown Care Energy Fund provides free, confidential financial help for Alliant Energy customers, including:

• Households that meet income guidelines established by the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program [LIHEAP].
• Individuals over 60 on a fixed income with no alternative source of funds.
• Individuals who are permanently or temporarily disabled, or medically disabled, and unable to be economically self-sufficient.
• Special hardship cases not limited to income, age or eligibility.