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Rent help · Texas

Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) · Texas

Texas program, funded by LIHEAP, that helps low-income households pay for electricity and gas, through local agencies in each county

See how to apply See the official page
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Kind of help
Power, gas or water
What its page says it pays; the agency decides the amount in your case.
Is it open?
Its page doesn’t say
What its page said on November 6, 2026.
Checked
November 6, 2026
Against the program's official page.

Type of help

What help it gives

  • Utilities

Source text

The Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program (CEAP) is a utility assistance program. CEAP is designed to assist low income households in meeting their immediate energy needs and to encourage consumers to control energy costs for years to come through energy education.

A summary of what the program publishes; not a promise of help or advice. Funds, limits and application dates change without notice.

At a glance

Who qualifies

Each answer comes from the program's page. "Not stated — ask" means its page doesn't make it clear: ask before you apply.

Source text

The CEAP involves integration of all LIHEAP-funded programs, thereby enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of services provided to clients and eliminating duplication of services. The CEAP is administered through subrecipients, which collectively cover all 254 counties of the state.
  • Income limit Ask for the limit for your household size
  • Immigration requirement Not stated — ask
  • Accepts ITIN? Not stated — ask
  • Spanish materials Not stated — ask
  • Program status The source does not say whether it is open — ask
  • Where it applies All of Texas

What its page says about being open

Its page doesn’t say whether the program is open or has funds. Ask the agency before you count on it. Read on the official page on November 6, 2026.

Step by step

How to use it, step by step

The steps to ask for the help, with what the program’s page says. What its page leaves open is further down, in the questions.

See how to apply

  1. Ask first whether it is open

    Its page does not say whether it is open or still has funds. That is the first thing to ask.

  2. Find who takes your application

    Check the official page for how to apply: with Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs or with a local agency in your area. If you can’t find it, call Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and ask.

  3. Have your papers ready

    Have your lease, the notice or past-due bill, and proof of your income ready. Ask what else they need and keep a copy of everything you hand in.

  4. If you have an eviction case, don’t miss court

    Don’t assume that asking for help stops an eviction case. Go to every hearing, tell the judge you applied for help, and look for free legal aid.

Before you call

What to ask

Its page leaves 6 points unclear. Write them down for when you talk to Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.

What its page does not say

  • Is it open now, and does it still have funds?
  • What is the most it gives, and how is it calculated?
  • Is there an income limit for my household?
  • Which immigration status or residency documents do you ask for?
  • Do you accept an ITIN?
  • Do you have materials or staff in Spanish?

Worth asking for this kind of help

  • How many months of rent, or which bills, does it cover?
  • Does it pay the landlord or the utility company, or me?
  • How long does an answer take, and how will I know if I’m approved?
  • Do I have to pay anything back, or can I apply again next year?

More rent help

Other rent-help programs in Texas

One more program we checked in Texas, with what its page says.

  • I Belong in Austin: Eviction Prevention Resources

    Run by City of Austin, Austin Housing · Austin, Travis County, Williamson County, Hays County

    City of Austin program against eviction; its page says direct rent help closed and that it now pays settlements negotiated with the landlord through legal aid

    Closed, per the source

    See details

Sources

How we checked this program

We read the program's official pages on November 6, 2026 and copied their text as it appears on them. We add no amounts or requirements those pages do not state, and a program is listed as open or closed only when its page says so.

We check every program again. If more than 180 days pass without a check, the page says so.

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