{"id":373825,"date":"2022-08-09T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=373825"},"modified":"2022-08-09T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:01:08","slug":"300-cuc-voucher-a-month-for-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/300-cuc-voucher-a-month-for-3-months\/","title":{"rendered":"$300 CUC voucher a  month for 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_373835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373835\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-mugs-cs6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-373835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2-mugs-cs6-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph DLG Torres and David DLG Atalig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres announced yesterday morning that the administration will be giving residential customers of the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. $300 monthly vouchers for their electric bills in August, September, and October 2022, for a total of $900 each.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Saipan Tribune\u2019s inquiry for more details about the new voucher program, Finance Secretary David DLG Atalig disclosed yesterday afternoon that he will be giving $9 million more to CUC from the American Rescue Plan Act funding under the Household Assistance Section.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of giving away a lump sum CUC voucher\u2014like they did in the past\u2014to help residential customers cope with the increased cost of electricity, Torres said they will be doing it per month this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you use more than $300, then you pay for the difference. If you charge less than $300, then obviously it carries on to the next one,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>Atalig said the first $7.5 million ARPA money that they gave CUC was used for the previous $500 voucher for residential customers. Atalig said the remaining balance from the $7.5 million was used for the $150 credit for CUC\u2019s residential customers last month.In total, $650 vouchers have already been given to each residential customer of CUC, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new voucher program, it will be $300 per month for three months (August, September, and October), Atalig said.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, CUC chief of administration Betty G. Terlaje disclosed during a meeting of the Judiciary and Governmental Operations Committee of the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation that CUC\u2019s $150 credit for its residential electric accounts in July came from the remaining $1.5 million balance out of the $7.5 million in ARPA funding that the administration gave to CUC for the previous $500 voucher program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres announced yesterday morning that the administration will be giving residential customers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":373835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-373825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}