ADVERTISEMENTAccording to Meralco, consumers who pay via the said app will have to pay an additional P47 convenience fee, he noted. Gatchalian suggested a staggered payment of the two months’ worth of electricity bills for not less than three months. Bayan Muna chairman Neri Colmenares made the same appeal to Meralco to waive, defer, or deduct electricity bills of consumers during the coronavirus pandemic. Colmenares said Meralco should emulate the move of electric cooperatives to waive their consumers’ electricity bills. “With these measures then at least to some extent the financial hardships of electricity consumers would be alleviated,” Colmenares said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 15, 2020 01:36 UTC