If approved, Pepco estimates that residential customers would see an increase of $4.36 a month.

“They put a couple of pennies in front of us, but meanwhile they’re reaching deep into our pockets,” says Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh.

The Examiner reports this morning that over 60,000 residential Verizon customers in D.C. are getting anywhere from 20 cents to $2 refunded to them this month due to a widespread billing error that occurred in May. Turns out Verizon started billing for a rate increase for landlines a full month before the increase had been approved by the D.C. Public Service Commission. A total of 60,543 residential customers were overcharged to the tune of $66,173….