A Company Sends Trillion-Dollar Checks to Customers

Last November, some areas in the northern part of England became the address of power cuts that lasted for days. The electricity distribution company responsible for this region is also responsible for its customers who are victims in the region where the electricity was cut off due to the storm. started giving compensation.. But the amount of compensation given in check was trillions of dollars.

Northern Powergrid, the electricity distribution company, delivered 74 customers who were victims of power cuts. 13-digit checks, worth trillions of dollars Wrote. So much so that one of these checks was written about It was worth $3.1 trillion. Of course, the company had not knowingly issued trillions of dollars in checks to customers affected by the power outages.

The numbers on the electricity meters and the payment numbers are confused:

According to the statement made by the company spokesperson, 13-digit checks turned into this due to a typo. Accordingly, the amount of payment confused with the number on the electricity meters. The spokesperson stated that the error continues to be investigated, and that they void all written checks as soon as the error is discovered.

On the other hand, the company is the victim of the said cuts. It has made compensation payments to nearly 30 thousand households. explained. After the interruptions, which are stated to have been caused by a storm of unprecedented severity in the last 15 years, the company announced that new checks with the correct payment amount will be sent soon to its 74 customers, to which it sent trillion-dollar checks.