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Utility rate proceedings, federal benefit adjustments, consumer enforcement and fraud — the household economics that rest on a public record.
Household money questions divide cleanly into two kinds, and conflating them is the commonest error in consumer coverage. Some figures are set by a decision — a commission order, a certified rate, an announced premium — and can be reported. Others are forecast, including by serious institutions, and cannot. Each page here states which kind of number it is carrying before it carries it.
A general rate case is not a rate change. This page separates the parts of PG&E’s 2027–2030 application that are still proposed from the decisions the Commission has actually issued.
The 2027 cost-of-living adjustment has an announcement date and no announced figure. The Medicare Part B premium that will be deducted from it has neither. Everything else circulating is a forecast.
Every one of these schemes needs the same thing from you — a payment or a code before you check. This page is organised around the checking, with the official contact route for each.