Southern California Edison SCE SCE took it upon themselves to return my checks and charge me a fee without telling me. Now I'm being charged an NSF fee because an incorrect account was entered twice on 2 different occasions ridgecrest California

Last summer I was charged high electric bills due to the summer heat. This was due to my swamp cooler vein out of commission and only having air. Our temps reach 115 at fines. I was unable to pay the bill on time. Therefor, they shut my electricity off. To get it turned on they took my average three month bill and multiplied it by 3. That amount was around 580 bucks. I paid the bill for the month and didn't realize that the deposit was a separate account. So once again they shut my electricity off. So again now I am paying two bills based on the deposit one and the account another. I of course had to do payment arrangements as I cant pay it all at the same time. Every month I'm paying the current bill and the payment arrangement.

On February 3rd I paid the bill over the automated phone via checking account for the deposit Fr 200 dollars. Because I was In my car and didn't want to drive I finished the transaction in the parking lot of my sons high school and hung up. Later that night I paid 60 dollars via the automated system and finished that transaction. On the 6th of February I received an automated call from SCE saying my payment was past due. So I asked to speak to a rep. He I thought was helpful and said yes I show you made payments on the account but you needed to pay more than 60. So he set up another payment arrangement to pay it on the 28th of February. so on february 21st I made another payment for 100.00.  Here it is February 28 and I decided to activate my account online. I see that the original 2 payments are not accounted for and actually that they were returned and to boot I have a late fee and an $8 returned check fee for both transactions on the third of February. today the 28th of feb I made a payment for the final deposit payment due to system showing that is what I owe past due And another 100 dollar payment so I could be closer to being paid off. Feb 3 260.00 ( never received) February 21 100.00 and February 28 I paid 275.25 so in all I have made over 600 in payments to them this month. Even without the money they didn't receive I made payments of 375. When I ask them about the returned checks a supervisor Rhonda tells me that if I don't pay another 25 plus the returned check fees they will shut me off.

First of all when I explained that I never had any checks bounce because I would have been charged a fee by my bank, her answer was as follows. The reason you didn't get any fees is because you must have entered the check number incorrectly in the automated system. So it was wrong. my response was ummm two different times. I don't rhink so. I asked if I could replay the recording because I know that I didn't enter it twice incorrectly. Her response was since you didn't talk to a rep we don't have that capability so there is no way of getting out of these fees along with the late charges. My god they are already charging me a 580 dollar deposit along with the increasing bills and I do qualify for the care program. How do I get out of this disgusting triangle with these people? They are crooks. my concern here is they can just say that and get away wifh it? Why?