Billing Adjustment
Today we will talk about what the Billing Adjustment is like, what details we must have when being part of this procedure, what we need to combat it, and more on this topic.
"I recommend that you have the legal advice of a lawyer with experience in the matter, since this is the cause of a Commercial Oral Trial which is carried out in a Federal Court."
What is the billing adjustment?
It is when CFE (Federal Electricity Commission) personnel visit your home and give you notice that they will make a review of your measurement system, this is about reviewing the form in which you are connected to the electrical network, check your meter and verify that it does not have any type of deviation, and when finished, the CFE staff will determine whether or not you are a candidate for a billing adjustment.
IMPORTANT: You have to know that this procedure begins with the delivery of a verification document, in which they are determining the meter to be checked, the location of this and other details for perform the verification, and then perform the review. In this document, everything related to the review of the system is noted.
Once the review is finished, the CFE staff has the obligation to deliver a copy of the verification certificate, at the end of this diligence, you as an individual must have the notice that you They are going to make this billing adjustment and the minutes that they have filled out as a result of the review they carried out.
In the minutes, you have the right to write down what you consider necessary to defend your situation, in the same way you can designate your witnesses, who will help you in this procedure.
Billing Adjustment Document
After a few days or maybe weeks of the review, a trade called Billing Adjustment Office in which they will indicate the result of the review of your measurement system, like this such as the amount of debt, which they estimate to be owed, for the electricity that was not being billed, highlighting the cause for which it has not been billed, as well as the indication of the period of time that they consider to be carried out said setting.
NOTE: the fact of not accepting the documents, or signing of receipt does not benefit in any way, it is important that, if you are being part of a billing adjustment, receive all the documents that are delivered and have a copy of them, since they are necessary to create a defense.
TWO WAYS TO COMBAT MISSING ADJUSTMENT:
FIRST. Making the payment that is requested in the adjustment that they make to have the reconnection of the electricity service, and later, within a procedure, request the refund of the amount paid, having the documents that were delivered within the entire Adjustment procedure.
SECOND. In case you do not have the amount of money that is requested in the Billing Adjustment, you will need the certificate where notice is given of the visit that is made, the minutes that are made at the time of the review of the metering system, and also the billing document, the identification of the person who appears as contractor of the electricity service, as well as the energy receipts electricity that have been received, with this documentation you can carry out the Billing Adjustment Nullification procedure, and have the possibility of reconnecting electricity.
