{"id":347472,"date":"2026-09-15T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347472\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:44:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-more-new-yorkers-could-save-up-to-500-a-year-on-utility-bills-under-expanded-state-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347472\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | More New Yorkers Could Save Up To 500 A Year On Utility Bills Under Expanded State Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More New Yorkers could soon qualify for savings on their utility bills under an expanded state assistance program.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-25-million-more-new-york-households-are-eligible-get-discounts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Kathy Hochul announced <\/a>today that New York&#8217;s Energy Affordability Program is expanding to include more working families.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Under the changes, a single person earning up to $113,000 a year and a family of four earning up to $162,000 may qualify for savings of up to $500 annually on their utility bills.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;If you receive benefits like SNAP, Medicaid or SSI you just have to apply, but even if you don&#8217;t get those benefits don&#8217;t assume you are not eligible,&#8221; Hochul said. &#8220;We just raised the income threshold dramatically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">State officials say the goal is to help New Yorkers afford essentials such as rent, groceries and medicine while reducing monthly energy costs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Separately, Hochul announced that 8.2 million New Yorkers could begin receiving one-time energy rebate checks in the mail as soon as next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More New Yorkers could soon qualify for savings on their utility bills under an expanded state assistance program.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-347472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347472","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=347472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}