The state of California will make $1.4 billion available by the end of the year for residents who have struggled to pay their utility bills due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor’s office said.
The state plans to disperse some $1.2 billion to residential electric utilities and $200 million to residential water and wastewater utilities to erase outstanding debt.
The state has already distributed $1.4 billion in electric, gas and water bill relief prior to the announcement, supporting some 2.2 million households, according to the governor’s office.
“No other state in America did as much for those struggling during the pandemic than California, with tens of billions of dollars for stimulus checks, small business relief, and past-due rent and utility bills to help Californians,” Gov. Gavin Newsom touted.
The $1.4 billion to be distributed by year’s end was included in the state’s budget for fiscal year 2022-2023, which began July 1.
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Can you say “bailout”?
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Not a bail out … but a buy out. He is trying to buy more and more votes.
Wanna bet that those he identifies as needs help are people of color and/or illegal?
We have all this money for him to use to buy votes … wow … but none for our vets and homeless in this once great state.
Can you say “vote buying”?
Yet another promise from Gavin to get votes in November. You have to love it when they buy votes with YOUR money.
No other state did as much as it could to destroy it’s people and itself.
All he can try to do is buy votes and hide cocaine use.Newsum= slimy slug
Why doesn’t Governor gel for brains compel PG&E to lower their rates instead?
exactly Mamba… Everyone struggles to pay that bill!
How pathetic for a political party to be so terrified of defeat and loss of control.
It’s not your money. It’s my money. Learn something today, OK?
Sooooo, guess I shouldn’t have paid my utility bills?
@BOOYAH!
I was thinking the same thing. I, like many others, have paid out thousands to PG&E since the beginning of the pandemic. This would appear to be Newsom’s version of student loan forgiveness. Not one thing about this is fair to anyone.
More redistribution of money by the democrat politicians.
Given that, I should probably amend my tax returns to show that I have several thousand dependents.
Funny how the money giveaways are given only to his chosen followers. Vote buying indeed. It must be embarrassing for them to be that obvious. But they don’t care because they enough people on their milk wagon. That is proven by simply looking at the new voter pamphlet guide which shows Newsoms name but no comment. It makes sense he is missing in action like his leadership.
The only thing he ever does is spend billions of dollars in taxpayers money with no noticeable improvements while the state is failing miserably…
People on limited incomes who don’t need to file income taxes will not recieve the hand out.
The poorest of the poor, who need it the most, get nothing.
That is wrong.
Everyone get’s the money or no one gets the money.
Instead of returning excess tax receipts to taxpayers, Newsom keeps our money and he redistributes it by executive order instead of legislators having to vote for this transfer of perceived wealth from earners to takers. The Governor has given these predators cover as he robs the working poor. Sure there should be legislation to spend taxes diligently but it’s the job of the legislature which (supposedly) must face their constituents, not executive fiat.