Section Adm 43.08 - Payment and reconciliation of the low-income assistance fee(1) PAYMENT DUE DATES. Each non-municipal electric utility shall make payments to the department of the estimated invoiced amount, no later than the 15th day of each month.(2) LATE PAYMENTS. Payments received after the 15th day of each month shall be assessed interest at the rate required by the commission for customer deposits for residential service set forth in s. PSC 113.0402(9) (b).(3) RECONCILIATION OF COLLECTED FEES. (a) The department and each non-municipal electric utility shall at a minimum, once per year reconcile actual residential collections less total reasonable and prudent expenses approved by the department, with estimated invoiced amounts. All collections that exceeded the estimated invoiced amounts will be collected through an adjustment to the next invoice. A non-municipal electric utility that collected less than the estimated invoiced amount will receive a credit to their next invoice in the amount of the under collection. In the event that overall collections are significantly under the total estimated invoiced amount the department may postpone crediting the following invoice until the next reconciliation period if the department determines substantial harm would be done to the operation of the low-income programs.(b) Once in any fiscal year, a non-municipal electric utility may submit a written request to the department to adjust its low-income assistance fee collection plan. The request shall contain the current amount that has been over-collected or under-collected and the amount that is forecasted to be over-collected or under-collected for the remainder of the fiscal year, the reasons for the differences and the non-municipal electric utility's proposed adjustments to its approved low-income assistance fee collection plan. The department shall indicate its approval or disapproval of the proposed adjustments in writing within 30 days of receipt of the request. The non-municipal electric utility may implement the collection plan adjustment immediately upon department approval. If the department does not approve a collection plan adjustment, the affected non-municipal electric utility may protest under procedures set forth in s. Adm 43.12.(c) The department shall adjust a non-municipal electric utility's low-income assistance fee collection plan effective on the beginning of the fiscal year for which the collection plan was submitted, upon a successful appeal filed under s. Adm 43.12.(4) ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND UNCOLLECTIBLE ACCOUNTS. A non-municipal electric utility's reconciliation statement may include an estimation of the uncollected amount of its preceding year's low-income assistance fee that is recorded as an accounts receivable. A non-municipal electric utility's reconciliation statement may also include an estimated amount of its low-income assistance fee that was recorded in a previous fiscal year as accounts receivable and has been subsequently recognized as uncollectible revenues. The cost of uncollectible revenues may be included in a request for reasonable and prudent expenses in s. Adm 43.09.(5) RECORDS. Each non-municipal electric utility shall maintain accurate records that allow the amount billed to and the amount collected from its residential and non-residential customers in each fiscal year to be measured against the amount invoiced, plus the total reasonable and prudent expenses approved by the department. The records shall be organized by customer class for residential customers and non-residential customers.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Administration Adm 43.08
Cr. Register, November, 2000, No. 539, eff. 12-1-00; CR 07-078: am. (title), (1), (3) (b) and (4), r. and recr. (3) (a), r. (3) (c), renum. (3) (d) to be (3) (c) and am. Register August 2008 No. 632, eff. 9-1-08.