{"id":365614,"date":"2026-10-06T07:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365614\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:22:24","slug":"could-you-save-500-on-your-utility-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/365614\/","title":{"rendered":"Could you save $500 on your utility bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Up to half of all New York State households are now eligible to receive monthly utility discounts through the state\u2019s Energy Affordability Program.<\/p>\n

To counter the rising cost of energy, the state has expanded access to its assistance so that a typical utility bill should be less than six percent of household income. Households, including those that rent, can save up to $500 per year on their utility costs with EAP discounts. The size of the discount is based on household income.<\/p>\n

The state estimates that 2.5 million eligible households are not yet signed up.<\/p>\n

While some households are automatically enrolled based on their participation in other assistance programs, like SNAP, many other households can enroll in the expanded program by applying online via NY.gov\/EAP<\/a>. Eligible households now include those that are below the state median income. For Orange & Rockland customers, a household of four can receive assistance if their income is $133,609 or less. If you\u2019re already enrolled in a discount program, that discount is labelled on your utility bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to half of all New York State households are now eligible to receive monthly utility discounts through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5649,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-365614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bills","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\/365614","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=365614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}