From the April bills, the discount from the heating allowance for electricity will begin to appear to consumers: Beneficiaries – as is known – will not see money in the bank as assistance since they belong to the category of households that heat in the winter months with electricity . The reason is none other than the fact that this allowance is not granted as a financial aid, but as a discount on the electricity bill.
Vangelis Durakis writes
The electricity subsidy given to households concerns in the period from 1 January to 31 March 2024 and ranges from 45 to 480 euros for the entire period of application of the measure, according to enikonomia.gr.
Which electricity bills will the discount appear on?
In a few words, the discount received by each beneficiary will begin to appear on the bills of the current month or the following ones issued by the electricity suppliers. This depends on which consumption period the bill will be issued for.
The extraordinary aid received by the beneficiaries ranges from 45 to 480 euros for the entire period of application of the measure and is granted against or settlement account, which is issued by the respective supplier.
Data related to Postal Codes, municipalities and settlements are used for its provision of the country. These are the degree days, which are an indicator of the severity of the climate of an area and are used to calculate the heating loads of a building and the required energy consumption for its heating.
According to the above approved amounts will not go into a bank account and the reason that the beneficiaries of the electricity aid will not see the money in its … physical form, is that the amount attributed to them it will appear as a discount on your electricity bill and specifically the one that will cover the period January – March 2024.
Who are the beneficiaries of the electricity allowance?
As regards the beneficiaries of the emergency heating aid with electricity, it is granted to natural persons, single or married or widowed or to persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement or are separated or divorced, who consume electricity to heat their main residence (whether it is privately owned, leased or granted free of charge).
In order to be granted the emergency aid, those interested had to meet the following criteria:
a. Income:
Their annual total family income, regardless of its source of origin, real and assumed, amounts to:
- up to 16,000 euros for an unmarried debtor or a widowed or separated debtor
- up to 24,000 euros for a married debtor or the married persons or the parties to the cohabitation agreement who submit a separate tax return or the married persons who submit a tax return based on point b of paragraph 4 of article 67 of Law 4172/2013 or the natural persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement and submitted a joint tax return without children, which is increased by 5,000 euros for each child.
- up to 000 euros for a single-parent family, which is increased by 5,000 euros for each child after the first.
If it was a business activity, the total gross income from the business activity of the debtor, spouse or cohabiting partner and dependent children, according to Law 4172/2013, must not exceed 80,000 euros.
b. Real estate:
The total value of the real estate, as it results from the act of administrative determination EN.F.I.A. of the year 2023, debtor, spouse or cohabiting partner and dependents, should not exceed 200,000 euros for singles, widowed or separated debtors and correspondingly the amount of 300,000 euros for married or cohabiting partners and single parents families.
