People still pay utilities bills directly to the man who reads the meter, and collect bank statements at local branches.
One issue of concern has been rising energy prices, and the subsequent impact higher utilities bills could have on consumer spending.
The utilities' bills remain unpaid, including some to independent power generators within California.
At the same time, testing shows that most consumers want overdraft services to cover important bills, such as checks they use to pay rent, utilities, and telephone bills.
Even so, with around three-quarters of billers, including most utilities, still offering only paper bills, change is unlikely to be quick.
Residential electrical bills from some local utilities still go to paying off the costs of the project, which remains the largest municipal bond failure in U.S. history.
We were able to do all this because we had overhead, which includes expenses many donors would not choose to pay for, like phone bills, insurance and utilities.
Let us have separate retail banks (dull, safe utilities where people can save and pay bills) and hive off the investment bankers.
If Ofwat sticks to its preliminary findings announced in July, water utilities will be forced to reduce their bills between 2010 and 2015.
In Japan, where convenience stores are in nearly every urban neighborhood, they are used to pay routine bills such as those for utilities and to pick up and pay for sundry deliveries.
Utilities would give their customers credits on their bills if they agree to reduce their power use by a bit whenever they are called up on to do.
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Increasingly, paychecks are electronically deposited, and the money for the bills they pay--mortgages, utilities, cable and phone--are paid electronically as well.
Start by taking stock of your monthly expenses mortgage or rent, insurance, utilities, food, clothing, car payments and other bills to see exactly how much money you would need to get by for nine months to one year.
The survey, which CEA conducted in April with more than 1, 000 respondents, also suggested that people participating in energy-management programs sponosored by electric utilities are saving negligible amounts of money on their monthly bills compared to non-participating consumers.
Needless to say, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates the utilities in New York, allowed utilities to pass the tax through to ratepayers in the form of higher monthly utility bills.
This is a company that works with utilities to help folks understand their energy costs and how they can save money on their energy bills.
Mr. Jindal is countering by exempting food, medicine and utilities from his sales tax and providing a rebate for low-income families so their tax bills would not rise.
The utilities could let the customers use HANA to model how much they were spending, and finding ways to cut their bills.
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