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Spire and Evergy hosts event to help budget your bill

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If trying to beat the heat is raising your utility bills and you are struggling to pay them, there is help available.

There is an energy event happening Tuesday July, 18 at the Evergy Connect building from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Spire and Evergy will have a team of energy specialists at the event to help people decide what assistance they need. This year there are additional funding resources that offer double the assistance.

“I came here to get some help for energy assistance because you know it’s less stress on you as far as paying your bills, helping you pay em and you can ease your mind a little bit,” Craig Polson said.

The team of specialists from Evergy and Spire will be on-hand with one on one support to help with income eligible utility payment assistance applications, budget billing and energy saving tools.

“We really encourage them to get in front of this if they find that they’re having trouble paying their bills to proactively go to Evergy.com, talk to our customer call center folks or come into connect here where the team can talk to them about you know payment plans and just help them,” Elizabeth Danforth, Evergy’s Director of Social Impact, said.

The reason you may have noticed that your gas bill for example is a little higher is because there’s more demand during the hot summer months. Natural gas is used to generate electricity to keep your homes cool and higher demand means rising natural gas costs.

Other organizations will be at the energy event including, KC Water, KC Housing Authority and several other organizations.