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Montana Universal Service Funds for Rate Assistance

• A major gas/electric utility agreed to a 10 percent discount in gas and electric rates for LIHEAP recipients beginning in winter 1991, several smaller utilities also have discounts. The discounts have been continued under electric and gas utility restructuring through a Universal System Benefits Charge. The discount, which had been at 15 percent since 2000, was temporarily raised to 25 percent during the winter of 2004-05 and to 30 percent during the winters of 2006 through 2007. See electric utility restructuring.

Note: Leveraging reports do not always give a complete statewide picture. Some resources are not reported through leveraging or are under reported.

LEVERAGING

2007: $3.6 million
2006: $4.3 million
2005: $3.8 million
2004: $3.4 million
2003: $2.3 million
2002: $2.8 million
2001: $1.6 million
2000: $1.6 million
1999: $853,000
1998: $853,000
1997: $982,940
1996: $715,902
1995: $759,014
1994: $772,050
1993: $719,747
1992: $621,000

Page last updated: October 21, 2011