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How do they distinguish those lower-income households without referring to tax documents?
by alwa 2y ago
How do they distinguish those lower-income households without referring to tax documents?
- dataflow 2y agoI have no idea about this particular program, but similar programs already exist for other utilities, you can look at how they do it (open the "What information do I need to provide..." section): https://www.att.com/internet/access/ https://www.att.com/internet/access/
- rnrn 2y agoPrevious proposals would have required everyone to provide income data to their utility which the utility would verify “somehow” (never fully articulated AFAIK) The latest proposal (which has been accepted by the CPUC) has fixed charges applied for everyone (much lower than previously proposed fixed charges) with discounts available based on existing low-income programs ( https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financ... ) So yes in order to get the discount low-income customers need to declare income and may need to verify that income with tax documents (depending on how much fraud these program plan to tolerate) but other customers do not need to provide income information.