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Note: This program will start accepting applications on June 9, 2025.
PG&E’s new program provides bill assistance to eligible customers. Enroll to match every dollar you pay up to $1,000 toward your past due balance.
To be eligible and participate in PG&E’s Match My Payment Program you must:
- Have a past-due balance of at least $100
- Verify that your household income does not exceed the program income limit of 400% federal poverty level
- Have a PG&E residential account in the name of the adult living in the household
- Make a payment of $50-$1,000 toward your overdue bill, so that PG&E can match your payment after your enrollment is confirmed
Other important information
- You can make multiple payments to get matching funds. Funds match up to $1,000 toward your past due balance
- PG&E is providing all the matching funds from a $50 million dollar contribution to assist customers
- Program ends 12/31/2025
- Match payments are subject to funding availability
Note:
- Customers who are enrolled in payment plans also may enroll.
- Customers who are enrolled in the Arrearage Management Plan (AMP) are not eligible.
- Customers who received a 2025 REACH grant will be pre-qualified based on their previously submitted income documents
- This is not an all-inclusive list and is subject to periodic modifications.
- All guidelines are established by PG&E’s Match My Payment Program.
To enroll in PG&E's Match My Payment Program
PG&E contracts with Dollar Energy Fund to accept and process assistance requests for the program.
- Apply online at Dollar Energy Fund website
- If you need additional local assistance, you can find an agency in your county to contact
- For questions related to your application or to check the status, please call us at 888-282-6816
*Eligibility based on <400% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) guidelines
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