New York State Electric & Gas: payment plan or bill assistance

New York law gives residential customers the right to reasonable installments, budget billing and deposit installments.

BCredibility B · last verified 2026-10-13 · 100% official or government sources · 3 from search snippets or archives

What does this mean?

Grade B (good: mostly official pages; check the flagged values before relying on them). 100% of 21 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites; 3 value(s) were read from a search snippet or an archive copy.

All New York State Electric & Gas contacts Open in the interactive directory JSON

Collect

current bill
income and expense information

Steps

Ask NYSEG for an installment agreement tailored to your finances, budget billing, or a due date adjusted to a fixed-income payment date.
PhoneCustomer service, also to verify a caller or visitor +1-800-572-1111
If NYSEG refuses a reasonable agreement, call DPS at 800-342-3377 (or 800-342-3355 if facing shutoff).

Facts you can cite

Policy
HEFPA: customers must be given the option to pay overdue bills in reasonable installments tailored to their financial circumstances, and must be offered budget (levelized) billing. Customers on a fixed income may have the bill due date adjusted.
Source: dps.ny.gov, verified 2026-10-13
Policy
HEFPA: utilities may demand security deposits from existing customers who are delinquent; customers may pay security deposits in up to 12 monthly installments.
Source: dps.ny.gov, verified 2026-10-13

If that fails, escalate

Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.

Customer service
PhoneCustomer service, also to verify a caller or visitor +1-800-572-1111
Supervisor
PhoneCustomer service, also to verify a caller or visitor +1-800-572-1111
Written complaint
MailNYSEG mailing address as listed on the NYS Clean Heat contact page NYSEG, P.O. Box 5240, Binghamton, NY 13902
State agency
Your state’s utility commission. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON: states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
New York State Public Service Commission / Department of Public Service, Office of Consumer Services: Helpline 800-342-3377 (complaints), Hotline 800-342-3355 (shut-offs). DPS says to first seek the assistance of the utility; DPS asks the utility to contact you, and if it does not respond within two weeks, contact DPS again.
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON: states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
New York State Office of the Attorney General.

Watch out

nyseg.com (and all Avangrid sites) timed out for every automated fetch on 2026-10-13. Outage and gas emergency numbers come only from search-result summaries; confirm them on the bill.
No NYSEG damage-claim channel or assistance program page could be read.

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