Section 407-314-2 - PURPOSE OF THE STATEWIDE LOW-INCOME ASSISTANCE PLAN AND LIAPsThe purpose of the Statewide Low-Income Assistance Plan and the individual LIAPs is to establish a series of bill payment assistance programs which collectively cover the State for low- income residential customers that will:
A. Make participants' electric bills more affordable;B. Make assistance available to low-income customers throughout the State; and C. Ensure that each transmission and distribution utility in the State has the funds necessary to implement a LIAP that addresses the need that exists in that particular transmission and distribution utility's service territory.65-407 C.M.R. ch. 314, § 2