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Exit Activities - (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2023
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items] |
Schedule of Retention Benefit Liability Roll Forward | Presented in the following table is a reconciliation of the retention benefit liability recorded in other liabilities on Consumers’ consolidated balance sheets:
In Millions
Three Months Ended March 31 |  |  |  | 2023 | 2022
Retention benefit liability at beginning of period |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 14 |
Costs deferred as a regulatory asset |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5 |  |  | 1 |
Retention benefit liability at the end of the period 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | 15 |
1 Includes current portion of other liabilities of $16 million at March 31, 2023 and $5 million at March 31, 2022.
Consumers Energy Company |
Restructuring Cost and Reserve [Line Items] |
Schedule of Retention Benefit Liability Roll Forward | Presented in the following table is a reconciliation of the retention benefit liability recorded in other liabilities on Consumers’ consolidated balance sheets:
In Millions
Three Months Ended March 31 |  |  |  | 2023 | 2022
Retention benefit liability at beginning of period |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 14 |
Costs deferred as a regulatory asset |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5 |  |  | 1 |
Retention benefit liability at the end of the period 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 26 |  |  | $ | 15 |
1 Includes current portion of other liabilities of $16 million at March 31, 2023 and $5 million at March 31, 2022.

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