Whether to Expand Con Edison's Low Income Program to Include Medicaid Recipients
NY-ADR
9/24/14 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-38-14-00007-P
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XXXVI, ISSUE 38
September 24, 2014
RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
PROPOSED RULE MAKING
NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED
I.D No. PSC-38-14-00007-P
Whether to Expand Con Edison's Low Income Program to Include Medicaid Recipients
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Public Service Commission is considering whether to approve, deny or modify, in whole or in part, a petition filed by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) to expand its electric low income program to include Medicaid recipients.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 4(1), 5(1), 65(1) and 66
Subject:
Whether to expand Con Edison's low income program to include Medicaid recipients.
Purpose:
Whether to expand Con Edison's low income program to include Medicaid recipients.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Public Service Commission is considering whether to approve, deny or modify, in whole or in part, a petition filed by Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) to expand its electric low income program to include Medicaid recipients. The electric low income program currently is budgeted at $47.5 million annually and serves approximately 417,000 participants. Participants receive a $9.50 monthly discount on their electric bills. Con Edison reports that adding Medicaid recipients to the program would add approximately 129,000 participants, resulting in a program serving 546,000 participants. Adding Medicaid participants at the current discount level would result in raising the program cost to $62.5 million. Alternatively, the discount could be reduced: reducing the discount to $8.50 would result in an annual program cost of $55.7 million; reducing the discount to $7.50 would cost $49.1 million. The discount could be reduced to the $7.50 level after 6 months at the $8.50 level, resulting in an annual cost between those two figures. The Company declined to make a specific recommendation. The Commission may consider any related matters.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained by filing a Document Request Form (F-96) located on our website http://www.dps.ny.gov/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
Deborah Swatling, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 486-2659, email: [email protected]
Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Kathleen H. Burgess, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530, email: [email protected]
Public comment will be received until:
45 days after publication of this notice.
Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement
Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
(13-E-0030SP7)
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