Over UAH 3.49 billion, or US$132 million, in subsidies from the national budget was paid to Ukrainian households to compensate housing and utilities costs in January-October 2017, which was 8.7% up year-over-year (y-o-y), according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service.
Investigative journalists from the Groshi TV program have tried to determine the biggest VIP debtors, the country's politicians, who have not paid for utilities on time.
Over UAH 2.8 billion, or US$107 million, in subsidies was paid to Ukrainians from the national budget to compensate housing and utilities costs in January-August 2017, which was 22.3% up year-over-year (y-o-y), according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service.
CEO of Kyiv municipal enterprise KyivZhytloSpecEkspluatatsia Oleh Kotlyarenko states that security systems to protect heating meters are to be installed in apartment blocks across the Ukrainian capital, according to 44.ua.
Ukrainian households' debts for centralized heating and hot water supplies fell by 3.5% in June 2017 from May 2017, to UAH 8.6 billion, or US$333 million, according to Ukraine's State Statistics Service.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, on Thursday passed a bill on commercial accounting of public utilities, which provides for the mandatory installation of house meters for heat, hot and cold water in non-residential (before October 1, 2017) and residential (before October 1, 2018) buildings.
Some UAH 2.065 billion, or US$77.2 million, in subsidies was paid to Ukrainians from the national budget to compensate housing and utilities costs in January-March 2017 (Q1 2017), which was 12.7% up year-over-year (y-o-y), according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service.
Head of Ukraine's National Energy and Utilities Regulation Commission (NEURC) Dmitry Vovk pledges there will be no changes in the model of payment for natural gas by Ukrainian households before a new heating season starts in 2017-2018, and a commission decision to introduce a delivery charge (the so-called customer charge) will be postponed for at least three months.