Citizens Energy doesn’t include the energy to pay the bills.
All of this “assistance” usually keeps people poor. It is really intended to make the giver feel good about himself, or to amass power and wealth the way the Kennedys of this world do. Too much help hurts people and subsidies hurt businesses. Even Chamber of Commerce types believe in so-called economic development which is merely another form of welfare.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/articles-commentary-blog/subsidies-hurt-recipients-too