New York OTDA has announced that the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) will close for both Regular and Emergency HEAP assistance benefits on Friday, May 14, 2010. No new applications […]
The Related Companies, owner of Yonkers Riverview II, filed revised procedures and model notices for eviction of tenants who have not paid charges for electric service. The May 7, 2010 […]
The North Bay Tenants Association at the Oceangate apartment complex in Brooklyn filed a petition on January 28, 2010 asking the PSC to revoke its prior approval of landlord submetering […]
Agreement on a state budget for April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2011 has not been reached. See David King, A Month After the Deadline, State Budget Nowhere in Sight, […]
Although TracFone willingly claims and accepts millions every month in universal service support, it has attempted to back away from state requirements to provide emergency 911 service. Back in 2008, […]
In an Order released on May 4th, 2010 the FCC directed the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service to review the federal eligibility, verification, and outreach rules for the Lifeline […]
PULP has asked for a review of the PSC process for deciding utility customer complaints, citing delays in some cases of more than a decade. The PSC consumer complaint process […]
Governor Paterson omitted PULP from his budget proposal, again making it essential for the state legislature to add appropriations that would ensure PULP’s survival. See State Budget Impasse Threatens PULP’s […]
In brief comments submitted to the FCC on April 2, 2010, the New York State Public Service Commission (“PSC”) stated its opposition to positions taken by Global NAPS defending its […]
In light of the Governor’s failure to make any provision for PULP in his proposed budget, and in light of the current tight budgetary situation facing New York State due […]