NEW ORLEANS- On (May 21, 2020) Council Utilities Chair Helena Moreno announced she and her colleagues will be directing Entergy New Orleans to provide $22M of Direct Bill Assistance to residential customers.

The City Council Cares (CCC) Program would provide New Orleanians rendered unemployed by the COVID-19 Pandemic eligible to receive a total of $400 of direct Entergy bill credits, at a maximum of $100 per month for four months.

“The CCC’s $22M in Direct Bill Assistance will cushion the economic damage our community is suffering and comes at no additional cost to ratepayers.”

The $22M in the CCC, identified by the Council’s Utilities Team, comes from Federal legal settlements and excess disaster preparedness reserves.

The Council expects the CCC to go live in late June, with the first bill credits delivered in time for the July billing cycle.