Month: June 2009
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With HEAP Closed, More Electric and Gas Customers Facing Termination
Utility terminations are soaring after the closure of the federally funded HEAP block grant program on May 15. Assistance under that program often covers only part of a customer’s bills, […] -
Low-Income Telephone Lifeline Assistance Reaches Fewer than 300,000 New Yorkers, Lowest in 20 Years
[See Update at bottom regarding number of Lifeline assistance recipients in New York] The latest FCC telephone Lifeline subscribership numbers are out, and the news is not good. For the […]