A Pennslyvania woman was shocked when she received her electricity bill this week.
“My eyes just about popped out of my head,” Horomanski to the newspaper. “We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.”
The “good news” was she didn’t have to pay the full amount but instead a minimum payment of only $28,176.
After receiving the bill, Horomanski initially questioned whether her electricity provider had increased their rates.
The 58-year-old quickly notified her son, who contacted the electricity provider and told them about the bill. They assured her that it was only an error.
Horomanski’s bill was quickly rectified to the correct amount of $284.46.
A spokesman for Penelec’s parent company, First Energy, told Go Erie he suspected that the error was caused by a misplaced decimal point.
“I can’t recall ever seeing a bill for billions of dollars,” spokesman Mark Durbin said. “We appreciate the customer’s willingness to reach out to us about the mistake.”
Horomanski jokingly said the eye-popping bill has caused her to ask her son for a different Christmas gift this year, reported the newspaper.
“I told him I want a heart monitor,” she jokingly said.
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