MORATORIUM EXTENSION VICTORY, AND PUSH FOR PIPP!
July 14th, 2020
Thank you to our members and all who contacted the PUC & Governor last week for real utility relief! We appreciate allied organizations who signed onto our letter to the PUC.
On Monday, the RI Public Utilities Commission agreed with us that an emergency still exists.
The PUC extended the moratorium on service terminations for utility customers enrolled in the low-income gas and/or electric rates through November 1, 2020, the start of the winter moratorium.
Because of your actions, consumers enrolled in low-income rates are effectively protected from utility termination due to nonpayment through April 2021!
The PUC specifies that:
“all other residential customers of National Grid are protected from electric and/or gas service termination as the result of nonpayment through September 30, 2020”
“The extension is to allow these customers additional time to contact the utility to determine whether they may now be eligible for the low income rate or otherwise enter into payment plans.”
This is an important victory! Let’s keep up the momentum as we continue to push for a PIPP (Percentage Income Payment Plan) in Rhode Island!
Please continue to call/email the Governor, your state reps and senators, and PUC officials to demand a PIPP and utility relief today.