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First Energy - Met-Ed - Pennsylvania Customer Assistance Programs

Offers the following customer assistance programs to those in need: 1) Pennsylvania Customer Assistance Program (PCAP:) Helps residential customers maintain electric service and eliminate their past-due balance. PCAP offers a reduced bill that is based on a percentage of income and debt forgiveness. Debt forgiveness credits are applied directly to participants' electric service accounts in recognition of payments that are made on time and paid in-full. The goals of PCAP are to: * Improve ability to make a payment * Reduce consumption of electricity (eligible PCAP customers must participate in WARM) * Reduce electric account debt 2) Customer Assistance & Referral Evaluation Services Program (CARES): Provides assistance on a short-term basis to payment-troubled residential customers. Based upon the circumstances, company CARES representatives make referrals to social agencies and provide information on appropriate company and/or external programs. CARES is open to: * any customer 60 years

Physical Address

2800 Pottsville Pike, Reading, PA 19605

Hours

Customer Contact Center: Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 6:00pm

Application process

Telephone

Fee

No fee.

Eligibility

Varies per program

Service area

Adams, PA Berks, PA Bucks, PA Chester, PA Cumberland, PA Dauphin, PA Lancaster, PA Lebanon, PA Lehigh, PA Monroe, PA Montgomery, PA Northampton, PA Pike, PA York, PA

Agency info

FirstEnergy

Energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. 10 electric utility operating companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric system, based on 6 million customers served within a 65,000 square-mile area in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland. These services are for Pennsylvania residents only.