AG's Office Looking Into What It Can Do About Flint Water Bills

Attorney General Bill Schuette says his office is looking into what it can do to help Flint residents still paying water bills for water they can’t use.

Flint continues to combat high lead levels in its drinking water, a problem since the city switch its water source while under state emergency management.

Despite that, city residents are still being charged for the water, which Schuette says is an outrage.

He says his office, which also deals with consumer complaints, is looking internally about what it can do about the issue.

Schuette says he views the water as a defective product.

There is some money set aside in a $28 million emergency funding plan for Flint to help the city’s utility recoup money lost because people weren’t paying their water bills.

Some lawmakers want that money to go to customers, instead it will be up to the utility to issue refunds.

That emergency funding plan passed the House last week and is slated for a Senate committee hearing Wednesday.