City of Long Beach resumes shutting off gas to delinquent customers

For residential accounts more than $800 behind in payments, gas shutoffs started Sunday, according to a city memo from city Director of Financial Management Kevin Riper.

The total amount of late due payments for gas, water, refuse and sewer - $13.6 million - represents 3.7% of all fee revenue collected by the city last year, the memo said.

The city will also start taking legal action to collect late payments, but any debt more than two years old is likely to be written off, Riper wrote.

Before the pandemic, the shutoff threshold for any delinquent account was $50.

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