In July, Lightfoot said similar reforms would be made to the city’s parking ticket program when she announced the city would stop suspending driver’s licenses for unpaid tickets and make it easier for drivers to access payment plans to settle ticket debt.
An ordinance to authorize the new program will be introduced to City Council next month. The program will be implemented in partnership with the Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, which will work with partner groups across the city to conduct enroll homeowners in the new program beginning in March 2020.
Homeowners whose households fall below 150 percent of the federal poverty level qualify for the program. That amounts to an annual income of $18,735 for a single person household, $25,365 for a two-person household, $31,995 for a three-person household and $38,625 for a family of four.
Ald. Michael Scott Jr. (24th) said the new utility billing program will go help level the playing field for families overburdened by utility bills.
“Water is a basic human right… This allows folks who do not have the wherewithal or the means or who have tried and bills have just kind of stacked up… to not have to worry about that choice,” Scott said.
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