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Montgomery Township and the Philadelphia Electric Co. apparently got their signals crossed. At issue: lighting the street lights at Canterbury II and III developments. The problem: changing tariffs, unfinished paperwork and street lights. "They were trying to impose a tariff that didn't exist," Montgomery Township Manager Daniel P. Olpere told township supervisors last week. But, according to Philadelphia Electric spokesman Michael Wood, the tariff did exist at the time.

Two Delaware County jail employees have been suspended after a prisoner was prematurely released last week when they failed to finish reading the bail conditions for the inmate, officials said. At least seven inmates at the George Hill Correctional Facility in Thornbury Township have been mistakenly released this year through paperwork errors or confusion over identities. Officials have acknowledged problems with procedures and paperwork. Christianus Felten, 42, of Upper Darby, is again behind bars after spending a night out. Felten, in jail awaiting trial in an alleged burglary, was approved for electronic home-monitoring after his bail was reduced at a preliminary hearing Dec. 7, according to Robert DiOrio, solicitor for the Delaware County Prison Board.

Mayor Gwendolyn Faison said yesterday that she was considering breaking her own policy and paying her bodyguard, Detective Keith Hicks, close to $11,000 in overtime accumulated since January. Hicks, a highly regarded street officer whom Faison refers to as her "community liaison," submitted paperwork for the money last week, Faison said. Bodyguard overtime has been a hot-button issue in cash-strapped Camden ever since former Mayor Milton Milan's bodyguards, Miguel Torres and Pierre Robinson, racked up thousands of dollars in overtime.

Ramone Moore just wants to receive NBA evaluations. That's why the Temple redshirt junior plans to file paperwork Saturday to enter the NBA draft. "I'm basically just testing the water just to see what the scouts think," said the 6-foot-4 shooting guard, who added that he will not hire an agent. "I'm trying to get in some workouts. "I'm looking forward to coming back to school next year. This is just a good opportunity to show where I stand for next year. " Moore has until Sunday to file paperwork with the NBA. If he doesn't hire an agent, the Southern High product can withdraw his name any time before May 8 without losing his NCAA eligibility.

When George Steffe entered a nursing home in Linwood, Atlantic County, two years ago, his family worried more about his failing health than about doctor bills and paperwork. But after his death in July at age 104, his son, Frank Steffe, inherited a continuing struggle to obtain reimbursement for $36,000 in expenses from his father's Medicare-supplement insurance carrier. It hasn't been easy, said Frank Steffe. Twice, the insurer told him his father's paperwork had not been received.

KHELI Muhammad was trying to schedule a routine pediatrician's appointment last summer when she discovered that her 2-year-old son, who has a congenital heart disorder, had been kicked off the Medicaid rolls. The 30-year-old mother of two boys was stunned. "It is written in stone that he's covered," Muhammad said of Samad, who qualifies for Medicaid based on his serious medical condition, not the family's income level. "He's pacemaker-dependent . . . [H]is heart will not beat without a pacemaker.

The paperwork required to obtain insurance and Medicare benefits has grown so complex over the years that many of those who have to rely on the coverage simply give up before they start. "They're buffaloed by the towering pile of forms filed with legalese and questions that don't seem to make sense," said Eleanor Davis, a volunteer who works with veterans organizations in filing claims for members. Federal aides estimate that as many as a third of those entitled to benefits never seek them and an even higher percentage fail to appeal when applications are rejected.

Luckily Rose Fasciocco loves her husband, Jimmy. Because he's making her crazy. Her husband's lack of organization at their thriving Delaware County plumbing business is turning their house into a mess, causing fights, and leading to serious cash flow problems - most of it avoidable with some attention to detail. The Fascioccos' problems are typical of home-based entrepreneurs and small-business owners, said organizing consultant Anna Sicalides of Berwyn, who visited the couple Tuesday at their office in the basement of their Springfield Township home.

The phone was ringing off the hook when the H&R Block office in the shopping center at 23rd and Oregon in South Philadelphia opened Monday - Tax Day - and the last-minute filers began streaming in, waving their paperwork and hoping the pros could make things as painless as possible. Denise Evans, a bus driver clutching her pay stubs and Form 1040-A, said she had tried to avoid paying extra for her taxes: "I thought I could do this on my own this year," she said. "I looked it up on You Tube.

The Pennsylvania Office of the Auditor General has cut a check to the Borough of North Wales for the state's contribution to the borough's pension plans. Much to the surprise of Borough Council and members of the Police Department, it was for $6,315. They had been expecting almost $40,000. North Wales Police Chief Kenneth Veit said he thought the management of the plans could be summed up in one word: "incompetence. " Steve Schell, spokesman for the Auditor General's Office, said the $40,000 figure had always been the potential maximum the pension plans could receive.