About 3 million New Yorkers have received energy rebate checks of up to $200, with another 5.2 million checks expected to be sent in the coming weeks, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The one-time payments are part of the state’s $1 billion Protecting Our Wallets Energy Rebate (POWER) program. Checks began going out Sept. 21 and will continue to be mailed through December.<\/p>\n
BACKGROUND: Millions of New Yorkers to receive energy rebate checks up to $200<\/a><\/p>\n Payment amounts are based on income and filing status from 2024 state income tax returns:<\/p>\n Joint filers earning less than $150,000 will receive $200.Joint filers earning between $150,000 and $300,000 will receive $150.Single filers earning less than $150,000 will receive $100.<\/p>\n Eligible recipients must have been full-time New York residents in 2024, filed a timely state income tax return and not been claimed as dependents on someone else’s return.<\/p>\n No application is required. The state Tax Department is automatically mailing checks to eligible New Yorkers.<\/p>\n “Our energy rebate checks are just one of many ways we’re helping families address rising costs,” Hochul said in a statement.<\/p>\n The governor also highlighted the state’s Energy Affordability Program, which provides monthly utility bill discounts to eligible households.<\/p>\n According to Hochul’s office, about 50,000 households have applied since a statewide enrollment push began in mid-September. The program currently serves approximately 1 million households, with an estimated 2.5 million more eligible but not enrolled.<\/p>\n MORE: 2.5 million New York households eligible for utility bill discounts<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> for more information about the rebate checks. Click here<\/a> for details about utility bill assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 3 million New Yorkers have received energy rebate checks of up to $200, with another 5.2 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-374188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374188","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=374188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}