More than 295,000 Connecticut households can’t afford their energy bills, according to the Home Energy Affordability Gap report released by Bloomfield nonprofit Operation Fuel.
The affordability gap totals $700 million for those households at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, meaning each Connecticut low-income household owes $2,363 in energy bills.
Despite this high affordability gap, Connecticut only has $76 million in funds annually to help these households pay their bills, according to Operation Fuel.
The report considered energy bills unaffordable if they exceeded 6 percent of the household’s annual income.
