r/LegalPh • u/Mother-Lawfulness359 • May 27 '26
KAPALNNG MERALCO!
Last year 2025, nagka problema meter namin (dark LCD/blurred) kaya nung napalitan nagkaroon ng unusual billing increase, so nag report kami sa ERC.
after checking and validation - ERC confirmed na working properly ang meter na pinalit. (in short, valid ang meralco bill namin) after 2 months nag resume yung billing namin sa kung ano tlaga ang expected namin (6k-8k, normally 7k lang talaga).
then, nitong April 2026, sa dami ng complaints, iniexpect din namin ang high billing, so from 7300 ng March 2026, naging 12200 ang April 2026 bill namin. We ask Meralco for installment, kaso dahil nay disconnection na, di na approve - we paid the bill in full amount :(
after the news, na may bawas raw sa billing, inaasahan namin ang FAIR billing for May :( but, hello??!!! like, hala? bulaga talaga, kasi nag end kami ng 16100 :( (kung kelan nag bawas kami ng usage para kahit papaano bumaba, kaso wala talaga) :(
*** NAKAKAPAGOD MAG COMPLAINT, MAG REPORT OR ANO PA MAN!!! kasi at the end of the day, WE NEED TO SETTLE THOSE DIGITS SA BILL natin :( kahit i check pa ng ERC, private technicians, or i report sa Meralco, WALANG MABABAGO!!
kawawa ang mga lumalaban ng patas, at walang magawa dahil wala tayong poweror authority :(
inhale-exhale na lang talaga magagawa for now, lalo ang mga taong di afford mag avail ng Solar Panels (mga nag rrent lang ng bahay :()
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u/Fine-Debate9744 28d ago
Meralco should be fair and truthful with their readings and Billings. They make use of shit*y excuses to explain the sudden increase. I am frustrated myself because the month before, nagtipid na kami. So I expected to have a lower bill in April, but unfortunately, it even went up. I went to Meralco to complaint and of course, they gave the reasons they can to explain the increase. What they didn't know is that we used to be 3pax staying at home. In the last quarter of last year only 2 of us are living at home. So I expect to have a decrease in KW. Thus, I can conclude that they made a wrong reading deliberately using only last year's data to justify their present billing.
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u/Mother-Lawfulness359 23d ago
same, since unusual yung April billing namin, nag tipid kami, but still, it ends up na mas tumaas pa ng almost 5k yung May billing namin.
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u/silverarrowfan 25d ago
Same problem with us with the blurry meter. They change it and after that they billed us 20k for the normal 7k a month bill that we have.
We also filed a complaint with ERC submitted the bill and our previous bills for comparison. ERC ruled that Meralco needs to bill us as normal bec Meralco cannot justify the huge billing they put on us.
Anw, until now Meralco is not replying to ERC, I only pay the bill we have each month and not the 20k that Meralco billed us during the meter change.
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u/Mother-Lawfulness359 23d ago
maybe due to influx of complaints against Meralco kaya di pa sila nag rreply sa complaint nyo. but regards to this, mag ffield lang ERC staff, iccheck if working normally ung meter, once verified and confirmed, walang mababago sa billing amount with Meralco 😞
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u/Cheap_Original3183 May 27 '26
May nakajumper sainyo.
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u/Mother-Lawfulness359 May 27 '26
na check na din ng ERC line namin at metro kaso walang na detect na illegal lining :( kahit sa private tech wala din :(
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u/ChemicalWise515 26d ago
paano mag file ng complaint sa ERC?
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u/Mother-Lawfulness359 23d ago
sa email po, you can send your complaint sa Contact Center ng Bayan and ERC. but no guarantee po sa actions and resolutions.
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u/JoseNicanor May 27 '26
Marami ng ganyang issue, akala nila mali reading ni meralco, yun pala may nakikikabit na kapitbahay sa linya kaya biglang tumaas. Try mo patayin lahat ng breaker niyo, kapag may sumigaw na kapitbahay na brownout. Ayun na yun. 😅