In March of this year, a resolution appeared according to which, until the termination or cancellation of martial law in Ukraine, it is prohibited to charge and collect penalties for late and / or incomplete payment for housing and communal services. This was recalled in the plot of "

However, already in August, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law that established a list of those from whom public utilities cannot collect a debt for a period of martial law. We are talking about people who live in areas of hostilities or in temporary occupation. The state gives them a deferment from paying the debt, and in other territories this innovation is no longer valid.

But as Oleg Popenko, the head of the union of consumers of public utilities, assures, if your city was under occupation for a certain time, then you can not pay the accumulated debts precisely for the period of temporary occupation.

In order for public utilities to recalculate your payments, you must provide a certificate confirming your absence from home for the period of occupation of the settlement or during hostilities in the region. You can get it in the territorial community where you were evacuated.

At the same time, he emphasized that ignoring the payment of debts can cost not only your finances, but also property: “If you have debts for housing and communal services, there is a court decision to collect these debts, then not only your property, but.

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Earlier it was reported that the deputies of the Kyiv City Council decided to introduce discounts on utility bills for certain categories of the population, as well as a number of institutions and organizations.