[1]Pramila Jayapal

Millions of Americans are falling behind on their bills during this
ongoing crisis. This kind of debt can snowball and lead to evictions or
shutoffs of vital services like clean water, gas and electricity, and
internet.

[ [link removed] ]But if we pass my friend Rashida Tlaib’s Maintaining Access to
Essential Services Act, we can stop utility shutoffs and eliminate
household debt for these essential services. Add your name to support this
legislation today:

Add your name

No one in this country should have to worry about whether they can
reliably access electricity, clean water, or broadband
internet.

But all across America, millions of families are struggling to afford the
skyrocketing prices of these essential services. Mounting debt for unpaid
bills has brought families to the brink of experiencing homelessness. And
people who can’t afford their utility bills are punished through shutoffs
of these vital, life-sustaining services, making it impossible to meet
their basic needs.

There’s a solution: My colleague and friend, Representative Rashida Tlaib
introduced the Maintaining Access to Essential Services Act. The bill will
stop utility shutoffs, require reconnection for anyone whose essential
services have been shut off, and eliminate household debt for water,
electricity, and broadband internet — and I’m proud to be a co-sponsor of
this vital legislation.

[ [link removed] ]Let’s show everyone that there’s real momentum behind this bill to get
it to President Biden’s desk. Will you add your name now to our petition
in support of the Maintaining Access to Essential Services Act?

Add your name

Even before the pandemic, millions of people across the country were going
without running water — a basic human need and a right — simply because
they couldn’t afford to pay for it. And this punitive system
disproportionately harms Black, brown, and low-income people.

To address this growing crisis, the Maintaining Access to Essential
Services Act provides nearly $40 billion in low-interest loans to
utilities — and requires them to: suspend utility shutoffs (water, power,
and internet), restore disconnected service, suspend late fees and
charges, stop the sale of household debt to debt collectors, and stop
filing adverse reports to credit agencies.

The loans will be forgiven when the utilities forgive all outstanding
household debt. That’s how we can eliminate mounting debt for millions of
struggling families and begin to break the cycle of poverty.

[ [link removed] ]In this crisis and beyond, we must ensure that people can remain in
their homes with their water running and their lights on. Add your name
now in support of Rashida Tlaib’s Maintaining Access to Essential Services
Act.

Add your name

In solidarity,

Pramila


 


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