Housing, utilities and fuel allowances are provided regardless of housing type or ownership.
In Ukraine, some citizens can count on a 50% discount on their electricity bills. According to the press service of the Pension Fund of Ukraine (PFU), this applies to the widows of fallen soldiers.
Benefits for Ukrainian women are provided for the following services on the basis of Article 15 of the Law of Ukraine “On the status of war veterans, guarantees of their social protection”:
- management of an apartment;
- for natural gas, electricity and thermal energy supply and distribution, hot water supply, central water supply, central drainage, domestic waste management;
- Individual contracts for the provision of utilities or subscription services for consumers under individual agreements with the maintenance of in-house systems for the provision of utilities, as well as payment of management costs of an apartment building where there is a union co-owners, a housing construction (housing) cooperative and for utilities in such a house expenditures have been created;
- for solid fuels and liquefied gas intake.
How are benefits calculated?
The Pension Fund noted that the area where the discount was provided is 21 square meters when calculating the heating and housing usage payment. m and an additional 10.5 square meters for each person permanently residing in a residential area (house) and entitled to a wage reduction. m per family
“If the spouse lives in a disabled-only family, there is a 50% discount on the use of gas to heat the house for twice the standard heated area (42 square meters per person receiving the discount). pay and 21 square meters per family),” added PFU.
Earlier it was learned that after the heating season in 2023, Ukraine will revise its electricity tariffs. According to Konstantin Ushchapovsky, head of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NKREKU), this will additionally fund emergency rescue efforts and increase the salaries of energy engineers and other critical infrastructure workers.
same Focus He said that from February 1, 2023, Ukrainians will receive new subsidies to pay for housing and communal services. more Focus He wrote that in 2023, 38 billion UAH will be allocated from the state budget to provide benefits and subsidies for the payment of housing and communal services.
Source: Focus
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