Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP)

PIPP is an extended payment arrangement that requires regulated gas and electric companies to accept payments based on a percentage of the household income. In Franklin County our two regulated utility vendors are American Electric Power (AEP), and Columbia Gas.

Under PIPP, if you heat with gas, you pay ten percent of your monthly household income to your gas company and five percent to your electric company. (If your monthly household income is at or below fifty 50 percent of the Federal Poverty level, PIPP customers will pay three percent instead of five percent for the secondary source of heat.) If you heat and cool with electricity, you pay fifteen or thirteen percent of your monthly household income.

The Breathing Association can enroll and re-verify PIPP amounts. All PIPP customers must re-verify their income annually with the exception of Zero-PIPP customers who must re-verify their income every 90 days. By completing the Energy Assistance Application you can enroll and re-verify your PIPP amount, as well as apply for a Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) benefit. 

To be eligible for the PIPP program, a customer must receive his or her primary or secondary heat source from a company regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) must have a total household income which is at or below 150% of the federal poverty level.