Instead, he was stunned to see his balance swollen by a payment of £151,786.69 from Npower.
'I couldn't believe my eyes,' said. 'At first I thought: "Have I won the Lottery?" 'I phoned my bank and they said: "Don't spend it yet". I told them not to worry, I had no intention of spending it.
'Npower make millions of pounds a day, they could quite easily afford to take me to court and accuse me of theft if they wanted to.
'But I have to count every penny to pay my bills, so to have that sort of life-changing amount sitting taunting me in my account is pretty hard to deal with.'
Mr Atkinson earns less than £20,000-a-year in a call centre and lives in a shared house in Abingdon, Oxfordshire with two friends, paying £525-a-month in rent.
His passion is acting - he recently played Algernon in Abingdon Drama Club's production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest - and it's money that could have helped him fulfil his dream.
'I'd love to go to drama school, which these days would cost around £60,000,' he said.
'In a parallel universe where I do just go and spend the money, I could pay for that and get my own flat as well.' He hasn't been a customer with Npower since he was a student in 2008.
His current home has a pre-pay meter which Mr Atkinson said was swallowing up more and more of the friends' income.
'We have to be careful to make sure we can pay the bills,' he said.
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