How do I get a subsidy for utilities

What is the subsidy for utilities

The subsidy for housing and communal services - is the kind of material support for low-income families. Money is allocated from the regional budget for free. But if you take them on the wrong purpose or social protection agencies will find out that the grounds for obtaining funds were not, the grant will have to return.

Who can get a grant

According to the Housing CodeArticle 159. The provision of subsidies for housing and communal services The Russian Federation, the subsidy may be obtained if a family spends on housing and utility payments more than the maximum established in the region, the share of total household income. At the federal level, the reference point is set RF Government Decree of 29.08.2005 N 541 (ed. from 16.12.2006) "On the payment of federal standards of housing and communal services" 22% of total revenues, however, the regional authorities have the right to reduce this figure.

If the average family income is below the regional subsistence minimum, maximum percentage decreases by a factor, which is calculated according to the formula:

Qualify for a subsidy can:

1. The owners of the apartment.
2. Citizens occupying housing on sotsnayma conditions.
3. Members of housing co-operatives.
4. Citizens who rent an apartment from private persons - with a formal contract and permanent residence registration.

If you have several premises, the grant can be issued only in one of them - one in which you are registered.

How do I get a subsidy for utilities

Prepare documents

It is necessary to collect the documents, which will include:

1. Statement for a grant, which lists all members of the family living in the apartment.
2. Certificate of family composition (obtained in the passport office, operates 2 weeks).
3. Extract from the Unified State Registry of real estate, confirming that the apartment It is in your property. Or a copy of the tenancy agreement.
4. A copy of the applicant's passport, including the page indicating the place of permanent residence.
5. A copy of a single payment document for the month, the last before applying for a grant. The document should reflect the total amount of payment and information on the presence or absence of debt.
6. Statement of earnings of all family members for at least six months. This is a reference 2-PIT employment, a document the size of a scholarship from the university and so on. Unemployed need to provide a copy of the work book and a certificate of employment center that you are a member or not a member on the account. In this case, if the husband and wife do not live together and are registered at different addresses, the income will still be considered joint and grant can be issued only in one apartment.
7. Copies of the documents on which you receive any benefits, social support measures and compensation to pay for utility services (Compensation are assigned only to the privileged categories of citizens: families with many children, pensioners, orphans and so Further). Copies of documents need to be notarized or provide, together with the original.
8. Proof of citizenship of all family members: the inner the passport, Military ID with a liner with a mark of citizenship, a birth certificate with a liner). Moreover, subsidies can receive not only Russians, but also citizens of the states with which the Russian Federation signed an international treaty (today Belarus and Kyrgyzstan).

The grant is given only in the absence of debt for utility services or citizen when there is a contract in which it undertakes to repay.

apply

With the package of documents can be accessed at:

1. Territorial department of the regional social welfare agencies.
2. Multifunctional Center. Address of the nearest can be found at website MFC Russia.

In some cities, you can issue a grant through the website "Public services». Look for this feature should be in the service catalog, in the section "apartment building and the land." Click on the "All Services".

Select "Benefits for housing and communal services" section.

Depending on the region desired service will be called differently. Should look for the option "provision of subsidies to citizens to pay for housing and communal services" or something similar.

Then click on "Get a service", and the system will be translated by you to the page of the local service where you can receive a subsidy.

If not, the page can be accessed from the available means of filing directly in your required location.

As calculated the subsidy

The volume share is calculated using the formula:

MS - is a minimum cost of utilities in a separate municipality on one man (established regional authorities and published on its website).

n - number of family members.

MDO - The limit on the proportion of total household income on housing and utility payments. Established by the regional legislature and published on its website. For the calculation takes only the figure excluding the% sign.

D - total family income.

If trading on one family member below subsistence, the coefficient (K) is added to the formula:

The formula can be transformed, if you belong to the group of the population eligible for additional benefits:

1. Heroes of the Soviet Union or Russia, Hero of Socialist Labor.
2. Invalids, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, their close relatives who were dependent on.
3. Disabled relatives of soldiers killed in combat or as a result acquired in the service of disease.
4. People affected by radiationWho participated in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident.
5. Invalids of all groups, families caring for disabled children.

The list can be extended by the regional authorities.

The subsidy will be granted only on the part of the apartment, which fits into the regional standard regulatory area of ​​the premises. For the "extra" square meters will have to pay fully their own.

regulatory area standard established by the legislature of the subject. You can find it on the site of the body or bodies portals, responsible for social protection.

How to pay subsidy

Department of housing subsidies of the local administration (the name may vary depending on the municipality) to consider an application, check the veracity of the documents and will respond within 10 working days. If not enough of a paper, it is necessary to bring it within one month, otherwise you'll have to start from the beginning.

If the officials to take positive action on your request, the money will transfer to your Bank account.

Those who for reasons of health or for other reasons can not open bank accounts and use them, the subsidy will be delivered to your home by mail.

Oksana Krasovskaja

If the application was lodged from 1 to 15 numbers subsidy credited with the first of the month, if after the 15th - the first day of the following month.

The money will pay for six months, then the documents will have to collect and submit again. If you refuse to grant inform you owe within five working days.

In some cases, the subsidy will cease to pay

According to Oksana Krasouskaya, there are four cases in which the money will no longer transfer to your account:

1. You did not pay for utility services in the next two months.
2. subsidy recipient changed his place of residence and not notified the authorities of social protection within a month after the move.
3. I changed the composition of the family of subsidies, and he did not disclose this to the bodies of social protection within a month.
4. subsidy recipient does not fulfill the conditions of the agreement for repayment of arrears.

To find out about violations of social protection authority periodically enough to communicate with the management company and the Office for Migration Research Affairs of Russia in your region. The first organization they learn about debt, the second - in your apartment or register a new tenant you are discharged from it.

First, Social Security Authority to suspend payment of subsidies for 30 days, notifying you of this within five days in writing, and try to find out whether you have a valid reason for the disorder (long-term treatment in a hospital, the death of a relative, and so the salary delay Further). If so, you'll be paid for the missed month, payments will continue on schedule.

If there is no valid reason, cease to pay a subsidy. re-issue payments it is possible, when all the defects will be corrected. Documents for registration of grants at the same time will have to collect again.

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