Title: Anyone have their electricity or gas shut off due to non payment? (pay, deposit) - Personal Finance -debt, loans, credit cards, banks, insurance... - City-Data Forum
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Dave Ramsey always says that when you don't have enough money for all your bills, pay them in this order: 1. mortgage/rent
2. food
3. basic utilities (not high speed internet or cell phone)
4. everything else (credit cards, car payment, enhanced utilities, etc). This person just prioritized badly. Like others have said, there are lots of programs for heat and electricity, even basic landline phone service, for low-income people. Aside from that, most electric companies have programs for medically-impaired people. I've had clients who had insulin-dependent diabetes, and the insulin had to be refrigerated, and their electric company agreed to keep on the power while they worked on a payment plan.