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DSS convenes LIHEAP working group to study vendor pay and bulk purchasing
Summary
The Department of Social Services convened a working group to evaluate how to compensate deliverable fuel vendors, analyze effects on LIHEAP client benefits, and study bulk‑purchasing options required by recent legislation; stakeholders including vendor associations, community action agencies and legislators joined the kickoff meeting.
Peter Hadler, deputy commissioner at the Department of Social Services, opened the first meeting of a newly formed LIHEAP working group and framed the group's charge as studying vendor compensation, bulk purchasing and potential impacts on client benefits tied to recent state legislation.
"My name is Peter Hadler. I'm a deputy commissioner here at the Department of Social Services," Hadler said as he introduced the group's purpose and DSS staff who will lead the effort. He said Cassandra Norfleet Johnson and Lynette Pisani will lead future meetings for DSS.
Cassandra Langford Johnson, a program manager at DSS who oversees the LIHEAP program and related block grants, told the group the presentation would first review statutory requirements and focus on three tasks the statute requires the group to study. "The first part of this presentation is really around…
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