STOCKTON — Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced a program that helps a lot of people pay their overdue bills has run out of money for the rest of the year.
This comes just five days after PG&E introduced another rate hike that could add on average about $6 a month to customers’ power bills.
The REACH program is supposed to help people break even with PG&E but now a lot of customers are left shrugging their shoulders not knowing what’s next.
Jennifer Godby was set to apply for the program but she was too late.
“I was in the process of doing the paperwork, then I came across that there was no money,” Godby said.
On August 30, PG&E announced the financial assistance program had run out of money for the rest of the year.
Godby lives in Stockton and is on PG&E’s medical baseline program for her and her son’s asthma but still is seeing bills that are hundreds of dollars every single month.
“One month, I got an $800 PG&E bill, and last month was $500,” she said. “These bills are just killing us. They’re really killing us.”