Charlotte Keith | Spotlight PA
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The number of people eligible for rent and property tax rebates will keep shrinking due to inflation unless Gov. Josh Shapiro and the state legislature can agree on a fix.
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Officials in Pennsylvania have temporarily halted applications for mortgage, utility, and tax relief as they make the transition.
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The Pennsylvania Homeowner Assistance Fund can help people who fell behind on mortgage and utility bills because of the pandemic — but be prepared for a monthslong wait.
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Backlogs and bottlenecks have dragged out wait times for a $350 million Pennsylvania mortgage relief program, leaving homeowners stuck in a high-stakes game of telephone.
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State and local officials are racing to make their own maps of broadband gaps in Pennsylvania, a process that will help dictate which areas in the state get priority access to funding.
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Pa. lawmakers passed up a chance to increase the speeds that qualify as broadband despite warnings that they would soon become obsolete.
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Federal officials want the money to benefit publicly-owned networks, but Pa. law gives phone companies a “virtual veto.”
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The Independent Fiscal Office’s finding that “there is little or no correlation” between public school spending and test scores raised eyebrows among Pennsylvania legislators.
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The failures are not the result of poor oversight, but rather an explicit effort by lawmakers to limit the information that is collected about the tax credit program.
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The inefficiency was caused by state lawmakers who chose to distribute most of the money by population rather than the actual number of renters in each county.