By enrolling in FPL’s Budget Billing, you agree that your monthly bill will be calculated by the Budget Billing terms.
Any residential customer with no delinquent balance is eligible to participate in Budget Billing. A customer may terminate participation from the program at any time and/or may be terminated by FPL if account becomes subject to collection action.
While enrolled in Budget Billing, a customer is billed monthly on a levelized consumption basis rather than on the basis of current consumption. A Budget Bill monthly bill will contain:
Actual Bill: Current consumption and associated charges; what would have been charged if off the program.
Budget Bill: The levelized consumption amount, which is determined by averaging the last 12 monthly billings for the premise, plus 1/12 of the deferred balance.
To note: If the account has been active less than 12 months on the premise, then FPL will use a combination of the customer’s billing history and the history on the premise.
Deferred Balance: Any difference between the levelized amount and the actual bill amount is added to a deferred balance.
If the Customer’s participation in the Budget Bill program is terminated, for whatever reason, the deferred balance will be applied to the customer’s next bill, and the customer will not be able to rejoin the program for 12 months following the date of termination. If the deferred balance was a credit at the time of termination, the balance will be credited against any outstanding billed amounts, and any remaining balance will be credited against the Customer’s future billings or returned upon request. If the deferred balance was a debit at the time of termination, the balance will be billed to the Customer. Customers who transfer the location of their service account within FPL’s territory will have the debit or credit balance transferred to the new service address.
Note: Any GS-1 or GSD-1 customer who has no delinquent balances and has been at the same location for 12 consecutive months with the company is eligible to participate in the Budget Billing Plan excluding GS-1 or GSD-1 customers that rent electrical facilities from the company under a Facility Rental Service Agreement and GSD-1 customers taking service under the Seasonal Demand Time of Use Rider.