Governor Kathy Hochul announced that $69.8 million in federal funds will be made available to support low-income New Yorkers in paying past-due bills for drinking water and wastewater. The Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP), provides eligible applicants with “up to $2,500 for drinking water arrears and $2,500 for wastewater arrears to help them avoid service interruptions when the moratorium on shutoffs expires next month.”
This initiative will assist approximately 105,000 homes within New York.
According to Governor Hochul, the program was created to help struggling New Yorkers recover from the pandemic. Anyone who is interested can simply apply online.
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Water Watch NYC 
March 5, 2022 at 10:43 am
Hershel ,
Thank you for creating this valuable resource.
I am stuck in DEP purgatory. DEP came to repair the external electronic water meter box. When they came the repairman said we have an “illegal union”. We then received the letter saying we were committing “Theft of Services”. It was quite a shock to be “tried and convicted” of convicted of theft without having stepped in front of any judge.
Be that as it may, we had the union “repaired”. DEP inspected. Yet many months later we continue to receive grossly inflated attributed consumption charges.
Do you have a recommendation for where I should file my complaint in order to get my account returned t metered billing? The formal complaint process implies that even if I win a formal complaint proceeding, I would have needed to pay the full inflated bill prior to making the complaint in order to receive a corrected bill.
Any advice ?
Thank you in advance