Some Con Edison customers in Brooklyn say Con Ed is rejecting their requests for reimbursement after January\u2019s prolonged power outages left them with spoiled food and medicine.<\/p>\n
Residents in Park Slope and Boerum Hill, among the hardest\u2011hit neighborhoods, were told they could apply for up to $850 through a Con Ed claims program. But many who submitted forms later received an email saying their claims would not be honored because the outages were caused by road salt, which the utility said was outside its control.<\/p>\n
Rami, a resident of Warren Street, said he and his partner were stunned when they learned their claim was denied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were both just flabbergasted,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have this program in place, and now they\u2019re claiming they won\u2019t cover it. Weeks later, almost four weeks now, to not pay, it\u2019s definitely a betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says given how often road salt causes power outages, the utility may as well not have this program if it will not honor claims caused by those conditions.<\/p>\n
“What would this even cover then? Because this is the bare minimum. We had to get a hotel to keep us and the pets safe, to not even this, I just don’t understand,” he said.<\/p>\n
City Council Member Shahana Hanif had urged constituents to apply for the reimbursement program.<\/p>\n
She told News 12 she is now pressing Con Ed for answers and pushing the utility to reconsider the denied claims, adding that other buildings that experienced outages in the area, did have their claims processed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Con Edison customers in Brooklyn say Con Ed is rejecting their requests for reimbursement after January\u2019s prolonged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[15608,98,100,99,9,24,63,8005,345],"class_list":{"0":"post-148676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-boerum-hill","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-park-slope","16":"tag-power-outages"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}