ALBANY — As gas and electric bill rate increases loom for National Grid customers, the state Public Service Commission has expanded the utility bill assistance program to include hundreds of thousands of additional households.
That could mean a few extra dollars a month for households in the Capital Region that might not consider themselves to be low-income.
“Every dollar does help in the long run,” Laurie Wheelock, executive director for the Public Utility Law Project of New York, said in a phone interview Tuesday. PULP is a longstanding Albany nonprofit that advocates on behalf of consumers for affordable and universal utility services…