In the final stretch is the credit process of the first wave of the advance payment of the heating allowance.
Those of the beneficiaries of last year's allowance submitted their application to myHeating by the end of November, until 10 December will see the deposit in their accounts.
This advance concerns almost half of the total number of beneficiaries, as well as this year's heating allowance of 100-750 euros are estimated to be entitled to approx 1,2 millions of households. At present, last year's beneficiaries will receive an advance and by the end of the year they are expected to receive an advance and those of this year's beneficiaries who submit applications by 15 December.
Old and new beneficiaries will have to submit an initial request for expression of interest and, once approved, proceed with the purchases and payments for the fuel for which they received the advance payment.. They will then be reconnected to AADE's MyHeating and after their identification, the application will display a message reminding you of what type of fuel the beneficiary stated in the application, in order to send payment details depending on the fuel it uses.
The planning of the Ministry of Finance for them 1,2 million this year beneficiaries predicts:
– Until 10 December, last year's beneficiaries will receive an advance payment equal to last year's money received as a grant.
– Until 30 December, last year's beneficiaries will be paid the total allowance they are entitled to this year, provided that they have submitted the required purchase documents by 15 December.
– Until 30 December, the new beneficiaries will also have received their allowance, after the broadening of income and property criteria.
The remaining amount of the heating allowance will be paid as follows:
– Until the 28th of February 2022 for all purchases that will be invoiced until January 31st 2022 and subject to the registration of the required data by 15 February 2022.
– Until the 29th of April 2022 for all purchases to be invoiced by March 31st 2022 and subject to the registration of the required data by April 15th 2022. Especially for gas will be registered until May 31 2022 purchase documents of the period 1.10.2021 to 31.03.2022 with the date of issue of the payment document until 16 May 2022 and the corresponding amount of allowance will be paid by June 15th 2022. The payment of the above installments is made after deducting the paid advance.
The beneficiaries
The number of beneficiaries is increasing significantly, while the amount of the allowance increases by 36% for households without children, against 59% for a family with two children and against 68% for households with 3 children.
The allowance is granted for purchases of oil or gas or other heating fuels and for purchases of firewood or pellets for those permanently residing in mountainous areas.. From this year they will be subsidized for the purchase of pellets and wood, the inhabitants of settlements with up to 3.500 residents and not 2.500 as it was until last year.
Beneficiaries of the allowance are:
1.Natural persons unmarried or married or widowed or persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement or are separated or divorced, which consume heating oil or natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas or firewood or biomass for heating (pellet). Especially for married people or persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement, The beneficiary is the person liable to submit the income tax return, or one of the two in the case of a separate declaration.
2. The natural persons, for the consumption of subsidized heating fuels, for the properties they use as their main residence at the time of application, whether they are rented or are free of charge or are privately owned. Especially for the granting of heating allowance to the consumers of firewood and biomass (pellet) an additional condition is that the property is located in a settlement with a population equal to or less than 2.500 residents and the corresponding subsidy rate should be equal to or greater than 0,8.
Those who are not entitled to heating allowance:
– they owned it 2020 cars over 1.928 cubic centimeters, boats over 5 meters and aircraft,
– is during 2021 declared "guests"
– had the 2020 I.X.. cars more than two.
The basis for calculating the allowance from 220 euro rises to 300 euro (this amount is multiplied by the degree days, which are a factor ranging from 0,12 to 1,62 depending on the cold of the area), while the minimum allowance increases to 100 euro, from 80 euros and the maximum allowance is increased to 750 euro, from 650 euro.
With the new method of calculation the allowance for each child will be increased by 20%, instead 10%, which was valid until today.
At the same time, the income criteria are increasing:
From 12.000 for the unmarried, in 14.000 euro.
In case of family, the allowance amounts to 20.000 euro, which will be increased by 3.000 euros for each child, instead 2.000 euro in force until today.
Therefore the income limit is increased:
– From 24.000 for the family with two children, in 26.000 euro.
– From 26.000 for the family with three children, in 29.000 euro.
Property criteria are also increasing:
– From 130.000 value of real estate for the unmarried, in 180.000 euro
– From 250.000 value of real estate for married people, in 300.000 euro.
Those who are not entitled to heating allowance:
– they owned it 2020 cars over 1.928 cubic centimeters, boats over 5 meters and aircraft,
– during the 2021 declared "guests",
– had the 2020 I.X.. cars more than two.
Source: dikaiologitika.gr
