By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News
A new law limits what alternative electricity suppliers can charge you for ending your contract early.
Residential customers will pay a maximum exit fee of $50, while the fee for businesses will be capped at $150.
If you’re a ComEd or Ameren customer, this isn’t a concern, as those companies don’t charge exit fees.
The law goes into effect immediately.
In other state news, the state has been ordered to keep making Medicaid payments in its most populous county, and the rest of Illinois may soon follow.
A.J. Wilhelmi of the Illinois Hospital Association says the court ruling ordering state Medicaid payments to continue only applies to Cook County hospitals, though he says the Bruce Rauner administration could choose to make the payments to the entire state.
The plaintiffs in the Cook County case, the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, have promised to file another suit if Medicaid money doesn’t start flowing to the rest of the state’s hospitals.
