PCS: Water assistance program helping pay water bill across the Panhandle - KFDA

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AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Many successful the authorities of Texas spell without water, not being capable to lavation dishes oregon person cleanable drinking water.

Panhandle Community Services (PCS) has a programme to assistance debased income households with h2o services called the Low Income Housing Water Program (LIHWAP).

“This is the archetypal of its kind. We would person astir 75 calls a time for conscionable radical conscionable seeking assistance with h2o bills. The hardships are existent and existent families are inactive hurting and inactive trying to retrieve from hard times,” said Christina Cristan, vigor assistance manager astatine PCS.

The h2o programme is simply a temporary, federally funded programme to assistance debased income households forestall having their h2o being unopen disconnected and paying their bill.

“It’s been chiefly lone towards households that had already been turned disconnected oregon person been connected the verge of being turned off. We’re excited to widen this work to families that inactive person immoderate hard times and paying that adjacent that existent inferior measure particularly with the holidays coming up. It’s not conscionable astir spending the money, it’s astir the lives that we get to interaction to assistance them prolong their time to time living,” said Cristan.

The cities successful the Panhandle covered presently are Borger, Bovina, Canyon, Claude, Dumas, Farwell, Fritch, Groom, Hart, McLean, Sandford, Shamrock, Skellytown, Stinnett, Sunray Tulia, Wheeler, Whitedeer, and Silverton.

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