Like in Moscow
Muscovites receive a single payment document to pay for housing and communal services. It includes an invoice for major items, but not all. For example, Internet, TV and home phone are paid for separately. Some also receive a receipt from the management company. For example, if you live in a residential complex with a fenced house territory, where there are barriers, underground parking, concierges.
The cost of these services sometimes increases the total cost of housing and communal services.
I have in hand a payment for a family of three living in an ordinary nine-story paneled building in Moscow. There are no beneficiaries in the family. In May, 7,266 rubles were charged for a three-room apartment with a total area of 58.5 square meters (living area 43 square meters). The receipt includes expenses for cold and hot water supply, sanitation (sewage), heating of the main part, a contribution for major repairs, housing maintenance and waste management (garbage removal) , as well as a radio point, a locking device and an antenna.
I will immediately note that the payment for the same services with the same amount of water consumption in November of last year was 5919 rubles. Why November? Yes, because only on December 1, 2022, tariff indexation took place in Russia (already the second in a year) – citizens received an explanation that an early increase in utility tariffs is necessary for their uninterrupted supply.
Then the tariffs for the cost of cold and hot water, electricity, heating, gas and municipal solid waste increased significantly – by 9% on average. However, I will clarify that all of the above applies to utility bills, but there are also housing services, and they have also been increased in Moscow – from January 1, 2023. Here the increase in tariffs amounted to about 20%.
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p class=””>Of course, even in the same house, with an equal surface and number of people, the bill on the receipt may be different and this will depend not only on the amount of water and light consumed, but also on the floor where is the apartment, whether owned or used by social contract. For example, the owner pays contributions for major repairs, but not the tenant. However, he has to pay monthly rent for the premises. House location also matters: all things being equal, house features pay more for those who live closer to the center. Payment of the EPD must be made no later than the 10th day of the month following the billing month. If the money has not been paid on time, penalties will be charged within a month for each day of delay.
There is no ZhEK in Moscow for a long time. For questions, Muscovites turn to the Unified Dispatch Service of the Moscow Department of Housing and Utilities. Here you can complain about the entrance not being cleaned in time, a burnt-out light bulb in the elevator, order the cleaning of the local area from snow and debris. The robot responds.
By the way, in Moscow there are subsidies for utility bills. They can count on those who, in the family, this item of expenditure absorbs more than 10% of all income. According to the Moscow Subsidy Center, more than half a million families benefit from it. The maximum income level of a family that can apply for a subsidy consists of: two people – 97,229.6 rubles, three people – 134,996.7 rubles, four people – 179,995.6 rubles.
Like in Minsk
Residents of Minsk, as well as all of Belarus, are not depressed when they receive another receipt for payment of utility bills: the total amounts of large bills are usually predictable. The general rule in force in recent years is as follows: the increase in state-subsidized tariffs for housing and communal services for the population should not exceed five dollars per year, or the equivalent of a family of three people living in a two-room apartment. apartment with a total area of 48 square meters. m, with the normative consumption of housing and communal services.
In Belarus, the monthly payment for housing and communal services for a family of three living in a “piece of a kopeck” is about 4,000 rubles in summer and 5,000 in winter
The rates for housing and communal services are traditionally revised twice a year. In January 2023, large bills (excluding heating) earned an average of 9.5 Belarusian rubles (313 Russian rubles). Since June 1, when the tariffs for heating and electricity, as well as gas for domestic heating, increased, the additional increase amounted to 4.39 Belarusian rubles (145 Russian). According to calculations by the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Commerce, the share of housing and communal services in the income of a family of three with two employees and receiving the average Republican salary this year will be 3.95%, a family of two pensioners – 11.05 percent. The average monthly payment for housing and communal services for a family of three living in a “piece of a kopeck” is about 3.7-4 thousand Russian rubles equivalent (excluding electricity) in summer. In winter, 20 percent more.
The state approach to tariff policy in the field of housing and communal services is closely related to the growth of citizens’ incomes. In September last year, the leadership of the Ministry of Housing and Community Services said that the state subsidizes heating and water heating by 80% (owners of empty apartments and the chronically unemployed pay at economically justified tariffs) – this is the “heaviest” line in large bills. The rest of the housing and communal services are entirely paid for by the population.
However, other concessions are also possible. The state provides non-monetary housing subsidies to citizens and families, provided that the monthly amount of utility bills exceeds 20% of their average monthly total income in the city and 15% in rural areas.
The form for notification of the amount of payment for housing and communal services and use of residential premises is the same for the whole country. The list of paid services is divided into four parts. The first – main housing and communal services at subsidized rates: deductions for maintenance, routine repairs, overhaul, payment for hot and cold water supply, sewage, gas supply, l supply of electricity (in the hostel), heating, maintenance of elevators, municipal solid waste management and sanitary maintenance of auxiliary living quarters. The second – the main housing and communal services at tariffs that ensure full reimbursement of economically justified costs. The third relates to reimbursable expenses (electricity for the lighting of auxiliary premises and the operation of equipment, as well as elevators). Fourth – additional services (for example, TV programs) and fees for the service of managing common property of a joint household. As a bonus – general information about the presence or absence of a balance carried forward from the previous month, penalties, non-cash housing subsidies, property tax, tax on dog ownership and land rent. Only after that, the final amount is indicated in bold.
Residents take cold and hot water meter readings themselves and enter them via the ERIP (Unified Settlement Information Space) electronic system. The charges for the past month must be paid no later than the 25th of the following month.
The most important thing is that the amounts of the receipts are understandable and predictable. It is an element of confidence in the State.
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