...housing and communal services?
How is the subsidy amount determined? What factors affect this size?
...housing and communal services?
How is the subsidy amount determined? What factors affect this size?
Citizens of Ukraine, foreigners and stateless persons who are legally present on the territory of Ukraine and who live in residential premises have the right to receive a housing subsidy.
The subsidy is assigned to:
to a person who is not registered, but actually lives in a residential premises (house) on the basis of a housing rental (lease) contract, by a court decision, or to individual developers whose houses are not put into operation, if a fee for housing and communal services is charged (before the application relevant documents confirming residence at the actual address of the household are attached);
to a person who is not registered, but actually lives in a residential premises (house) without concluding a housing rental (lease) contract, in the event that he is internally displaced (corresponding documents confirming residence at the actual address of the household are attached to the application);
to minor children who were left without parental care (custody), or disabled persons of working age, over whom guardianship has been established (on the application of the guardian (custodian) and is calculated based on the amount of the survivor's pension and other social benefits, which receives a guardian (custodian) for wards of children and disabled persons.
Subsidy amount:
The housing subsidy for the payment of communal services is assigned taking into account the social standards of the relevant communal services.
If the norms of consumption of communal services (or tariffs for centralized heating services for the population), approved by local self-government bodies or other authorized bodies, are lower than the social standards for payment of communal services, established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, for the calculation of housing subsidies are applied:
in case of availability of means of accounting - social standards for payment of communal services established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
in the absence of accounting means - norms of consumption of communal services, which are established by local self-government bodies or other authorized bodies.