Here’s How to Get Help Paying Your San Diego Trash Fee

Here’s how to get help paying your San Diego trash fee

This article first appeared in inewsource. Sign up for their newsletters here. Can’t pay your new trash collection fee? The city of San Diego is offering financial assistance to some households as long as they apply by April 30.  The city’s Solid Waste Management Fee Financial Assistance Program helps households cover roughly half of their annual trash collection fee. Funding is available for 7,000 households, but only about half as many have ap…

Morning Report: Trashing the Trash Fee

San Diego’s recently implemented trash fee has politicos and residents down in the dumps. But a new effort to repeal it could lay waste to the city’s already busted budget. The chief complaint of the anti-fee crowd is the claim that the fee was a bait and switch. When voters approved the concept of a fee in 2022, city officials gave them an estimate of how much it would cost a month. What they ended up charging, though, was nearly twice as much …