{"id":5301,"date":"2020-03-18T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T07:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2020-03-18T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T07:57:36","slug":"power-and-water-firms-give-customers-30-day-extension-on-payment-of-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/power-and-water-firms-give-customers-30-day-extension-on-payment-of-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Power and water firms give customers 30-day extension on payment of bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Electricity and water companies are giving their consumers one month reprieve in the payment of charges that fall within the enhanced community quarantine period.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Manila Water Co. Inc. said it was extending the due date of payment of customers\u2019 water bills for 30 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maynilad Water Services Inc., aside from the 30-day payment extension, is suspending the disconnection of overdue accounts until April 14. This is in addition to the normal 60-day grace period before the customer receives a disconnection notice for unpaid bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For its part, Meralco extended by 30 days the settlement of bills due on March 1 to April 14, adding that maintenance activities were also suspended during the quarantine period, \u201cunless necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, National Grid Corp. of the Philippines is implementing a 30-day deferment program for the payment of transmission charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The companies also suggested for customers to settle their bills through online channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity and water companies are giving their consumers one month reprieve in the payment of charges that fall within the enhanced community quarantine period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2294,2302,2301,2303,511],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-covid-19","tag-manila-water-co-inc","tag-maynilad","tag-meralco","tag-mobile-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}