Atlanta Gas to help with reconnection fees

Atlanta Gas

to help with reconnection fees

AGL Resources

Inc., at the request of the Georgia Department of Human Resources, will

fund reconnection fees for natural gas customers DHR qualifies as eligible

to receive low-income energy assistance funding.

AGLR also will

provide employee volunteers to the department to assist with application

processing.

Customers qualified

to receive funding through the state's Low-Income Home Energy Assistance

Program will not be required to pay the $25 reconnection fee associated

with having natural gas service restored. AGL Resources will provide funds

to Atlanta Gas Light to cover the reconnection fee for those qualified

customers.

"Funding

for reconnections is critical to qualifying low income customers for assistance

through the state's LIHEAP program," said Jim Martin, commissioner

of the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

"For customers

to receive energy assistance, they must currently have service with one

of the state's natural gas marketers. We sincerely appreciate AGL Resources'

contributions which are key to ensuring that those Georgians in financial

need will have gas service this winter."

"We recognize

the dire situation thousands of Georgians without natural gas service

face this winter," said Susan McLaughlin, president and CEO of Atlanta

Gas Light Company. "Together with the Department of Human Resources,

AGL hopes to help bring gas service to as many qualified Georgians as

possible.

While this

effort will address some immediate needs, a long-term solution must be

created to ensure that people do not find themselves with no means of

receiving service in the future. Atlanta Gas Light will continue to work

to be a part of the solution."

To be eligible

for assistance, a family must meet an income equal to or less than 150

percent of the federal poverty guidelines.

For a one-person

household, that would be $12,885; for two persons $17,415; for three persons

$21,945; for four persons $26,475; for five persons $31,005; for six persons

$35,535; for seven persons $40,065; and for eight or more persons $44,595.

For information,

phone the local community action agency or the Division of Family and

Children Services at 404-657-3426 or 404-657-3427.

Atlanta Gas

Light Company is the largest natural gas distributor in the Southeast

and provides delivery service to more than 1.5 million customers in Georgia.

For information

visit www.AtlantaGasLight.com.

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