Pennsylvania PUC OKs Increasing State USF Surcharge
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission cleared an 8.2 percent increase to its state USF surcharge for 2019. Commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday for an order in docket M-00001337 to increase the surcharge to 2.12 percent of intrastate revenue, up from 1.96…
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percent this year. The surcharge is based on an estimated cash balance of $1.5 million on Dec. 31. The PUC maintained a 5 percent contingency cash reserve it’s had for the past 13 years.