State's Heating Aid Endangered

Social services groups are scrambling to prevent thousands of low-income Michigan residents from having their heat cut off after a program that helped pay overdue utility bills for the poor lost its funding.

A court struck down the financing system used by the program in July, and lawmakers haven't enacted a new one.

With the aid money running out as winter arrives, officials are temporarily drawing on other funds to tide over needy families.

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