Access to utility service : disconnections, metering, payments, telecommunications, and assistance programs / Charles Harak, Olivia Bae Wein, Jenifer Bosco, John Howat ; contributing authors, Emily Green Caplan, Geoff Walsh, John Van Alst.
| Uniform Title: | Consumer credit and sales legal practice series.
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
National Consumer Law Center,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
| Series: | Consumer credit and sales legal practice series.
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 691 pages ; 28 cm. Online version of the most recent edition is available via NCLC Digital Library. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Right to utility service
- Tenant strategies for maintaining service
- Metering issues : metering errors, master-metering, submetering, prepayment meters, advanced meters
- Payment issues : payment, security deposits, and late charges
- Grounds for termination of utility service and termination protections
- Utility affordability programs : description and implementation
- The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
- Weatherization and energy efficiency programs
- Utility allowances in subsidized housing
- Telecommunications
- Affordable water service
- Bankruptcy issues : when either the consumer or landlord files for bankruptcy
- Manufactured homes and utility service
- Due process protections for municipal and REC customers : unregulated deliverable fuels
- Appendices.