{"id":29278,"date":"2017-07-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/more-than-7-million-remains-available-to-help-pse-customers\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:30:00","slug":"more-than-7-million-remains-available-to-help-pse-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/more-than-7-million-remains-available-to-help-pse-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $7 million remains available to help PSE customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the past winter season the coldest on record for the past 30 years, some Puget Sound Energy customers may struggle into the summer months with paying their energy bills.<\/p>\n<p>More than $7 million is still available to help PSE income-qualified customers with additional bill payment assistance on electric and natural gas bills.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on income and household size, a qualified customer could receive up to $1,000 from PSE&rsquo;s HELP (Home Energy Lifeline Program). The amount of HELP aid given to a PSE electricity or natural gas customer depends on household size, income, and energy use. For a family of four, the net income cap in several Western Washington counties is $3,038.<\/p>\n<p>HELP is administered by local agencies in partnership with PSE. Find your local assistance agency by county here or call 1-866-223-5425.<\/p>\n<p>So far in 2016-2017, PSE HELP:<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Provided assistance to 27,364 families<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Distributed $12 million<\/p>\n<p>Through a separate program, The Salvation Army Warm Home Fund, PSE customers have donated more than ever this past year with $770,195, which provides one-time emergency funding to help customers pay their bill. The Warm Home Fund has existed since 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the past winter season the coldest on record for the past 30 years, some Puget Sound Energy customers may struggle into the summer months with paying their energy bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":29279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}