Suffolk County Veterans Emergency Assistance and Home Heating Grants

A Suffolk County commission of the Veterans Service Agency director and veterans' organizations awards emergency grants to veterans and their spouses who have used up every other source of emergency aid, including help with heating fuel, electricity or a boiler repair. Apply through the Veterans Service Agency.

Also called: emergency assistance, Veterans Emergency Assistance Commission, home heating, heating oil, boiler, Resolution 773-2025, Resolution 291-2023, grant.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Suffolk County, NYCounty

The Suffolk County Veterans Emergency Assistance Commission, created by Resolution 291-2023 and reshaped by Resolution 773-2025 (Suffolk County Code 1168-16 to 1168-26), evaluates applications and awards grants to qualified veterans and their spouses in need. Its seven members are the Veterans Service Agency director as chair, the chair of the Veterans Committee, and representatives of a VFW post, the Korean War Veterans Association, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 11, an AMVETS post and the American Legion Riders. The Commission sets its own criteria, and the Code requires that an applicant has exhausted all other emergency aid. Home heating. Under Resolution 773-2025 the agency runs a Veterans Emergency Home Heating Assistance Program. The application asks for the DD-214 showing an honorable or general under honorable conditions discharge, every source of household income including any VA rating, proof of the heating cost (oil, electricity, gas or propane) or a boiler or plumbing estimate in the veteran's name at the veteran's address, and a letter describing the need. Renters and owners can apply. Send everything together, as PDFs rather than photographs, to the Veterans Service Agency, 100 Veterans Memorial Highway, P.O. Box 6100, Hauppauge, NY 11788-0099, or [email protected], or fax 631-853-8390. Questions: 631-853-8387. The discharge test. The application asks for an honorable or general discharge. A veteran with an other than honorable discharge and a qualifying condition, or a discharged LGBT veteran, whom State law treats as eligible for most State benefits, should ask the agency anyway.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Suffolk County Veterans Emergency Assistance and Home Heating Grants
Gate	Rule
Honorable or general discharge, and other emergency aid exhausted	Need is judged by the Commission. No rating is needed.
Household need	The application asks for every source of household income; the Commission decides need.

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Last updated 2026-10-02.

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