(Harrisburg) -- The state's fiscal watchdog says poor administration at the Department of Public Welfare means heating bill assistance is going to people that shouldn’t be getting it. The program is LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program: federal dollars doled out by the state to people who can’t afford to heat their homes. But, Auditor General Jack Wagner says an audit of applications submitted from 2009 to 2010 shows all kinds of problems: dead peoples’Social Security numbers on applications, multiple payments made to the same household and applications being approved for people in jail. "The winter season is just three months off. You’re going to start seeing applications in your inbox for LEAP," he says. "Before any application is filled out this year, there needs to be a dramatic improvement in the management and the oversight of the LIHEAP program within the Department of Public Welfare." The audit shows a more than eight percent error rate in a random sample of payments -– a number that went up when the audit homed in on certain types of applications. An agency spokesman, who is still reviewing the audit, says LIHEAP is currently run by a team that oversees all DPW benefits, like food stamps and cash assistance.