LIHEAP allows states flexibility to fund cooling assistance, summer crisis assistance, and year-round crisis assistance, and the Department of Health and Human Services describes those funds as intended to maintain cooling service, prevent shutoffs, and restore service after disconnection. Heat deaths in older adults are frequently discovered late, and a phone call does not reveal a home that is 95 degrees inside. Not once air temperature approaches body temperature. LIHEAP funds cooling and crisis assistance, though not every state offers a summer cooling component and some application windows close mid-summer. Households with a shutoff notice should ask their state agency specifically about crisis assistance, which is usually available year-round.