I am sure I’m not the only one confused about the new BGE rate increases.  I wondered earlier in the week if it would make more sense for us to try to make sure we move sooner than later due to the rises in this and our property tax in July, yep the city is royally screwing us this July.  Now after reading this it says if we opt into the deferred rate increase plan and then move out of the area we will still owe BGE money. How ridiculous is that? I dont know whether to opt in or out, and several places keep saying that the average bill will be under $150, but our current bill is already over that so I dont want to imagine what it will be like after the increase. we live in the city so our rates are already higher than those living a block over in the county and now with this and our property taxes going up a ridiculous amt we’re going to be screwed this summer.
on top of stressing over this, we got a hospital bill for Zeke’s hospital stay.  It was for over $8000!  The insurance company said we never added him to the policy, which we called both them and the HR dept at Dean’s company weeks ago.  They told us if he wasnt added in 30 days that it wouldnt be covered, they conveniently wait til after the 30 days to send us a bill letting us know there was a problem. Turns out there is record at Dean’s hr dept that we called within the 30 day time but for some reason the info didnt get from his company to the insurance company. I’m praying once it does the bill goes away, but it’s scary getting a bill that high!!  We’ve got a ton of other medical bills we’re having issues with in regards to the pregnancy/birth and I’m going nuts worrying about it.
we did finally get some money back from our car insurance that we were due to our towing expense coverage but we owe part of that to other things already. I hate having to worry about money but since it doesnt grow on trees it’s kind of hard to ignore! Not to mention all these doctors appointments and medicines we all keep needing. Dean got 3 prescriptions today from the allergist and Caleb got one for strep. We are supporting the freaking drug manufacturers a lot this year and I’m sure we could spend our money having more fun or at least on drugs that are more fun! 😉
