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Programs for Limited-Income Households
Are Available Today!!
If you are having trouble paying your natural gas bill, contact your natural gas
company (see list below), the Public Utility Commission at 1-888-PUC-FACT,
or the Office of Consumer Advocate (800-684-6560) for assistance.
Heating Bill Help Programs Are Available Today:
You may qualify for assistance programs provided by the Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare and/or a utility-sponsored
assistance program targeted for low-income and financially stressed customers.
Every natural gas company in Pennsylvania has established a Customer Assistance
Program (CAP) and a Low-Income Usage Reduction Program (LIURP). CAP provides consumers
with low-income with lower rates. LIURP aims to reduce gas usage by providing consumers
with energy efficient equipment as well as insulation. LIURP has helped thousands
of people better manage their natural gas bills. Gas companies, their employees
and customers contribute over one million dollars each year to provide special supplemental
assistance to customers with the most serious payment problems. These valuable programs
are administered by organizations such as the Dollar Energy Fund, the Utility Emergency
Services Fund (UESF), the Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO), the Salvation
Army and other community organizations. In addition, the federally supported Low
Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a long time friend of low-income
customers in need of help paying winter heating bills. For information on the LIHEAP
program, contact your local County Assistance Office or check the
website.
Weatherization Assistance Program:
The Weatherization Program is this country's longest running, and most successful
energy efficiency program. This program enables low-income families to permanently
reduce their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient. By reducing
the energy bills of low-income families, weatherization reduces dependency and frees
this savings for more pressing family needs. According to the U.S. Department of
Energy, weatherization reduces home heating bills by an average of 31% and overall
energy bills by $200 to $250 per year. You can find more information about the Weatherization
Assistance Program at the State Department of Public Welfare website and
the
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Weatherization
& Intergovernmental Program.
Call your natural gas distribution company for details about qualifying for one
of these programs. Each company's telephone number is listed below.
Columbia 1-800-537-7431
Dominion Peoples 1-800-400-9276
Equitable
Within Allegheny County 1-412-395-3050
Outside of Allegheny County 1-800-654-6335
NFG 1-800-365-3234
PECO Energy 1-800-774-7040
PG Energy 1-800-490-8605
Philadelphia Gas Works 1-215-235-1000
PPL Gas 1-800-652-0550
T.W. Phillips 1-866-276-4055
UGI Gas 1-800-340-5394 - or - 1-800-276-2722
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