About Benefits For Bills

June Kettering

We write plain guides to the plans and protections behind everyday household bills. Our readers are mostly people on a fixed income, and grown children who help a parent keep up with the mail.

When we link to a page, it is because that page is where the answer lives.

The name on our guides

June Kettering is a pen name that our writers share. She is not a real person with a job at a utility, and she is not a lawyer or a tax preparer. The guides are general information, not advice for your own case.

What we can't do for you

We don't take applications. We don't call your utility or your county for you. We can't look up your account, and we can't tell you whether a plan will say yes. Only the company or office that runs the plan can do that.

How we check our facts

Each fact comes from an official page: a state utility commission, the FCC, a federal agency, or a state or county tax office. When a page is run by a private group, we say who runs it. Next to each part of a guide, we show the date we last checked it. If a rule has changed since that date, go by what the agency or company says now.

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