The expert spoke about the new order of subsidies for housing and communal services

The bill, which changes the procedure for calculating subsidies for housing and communal services, will allow families in straitened financial conditions to save another 7 to 12% of their total income. Kirill Parfenov, an expert on state and municipal management at Witte Moscow University, told Izvestia about this. The only exception will be residents of those regions of the federation where the threshold for granting subsidies is currently set at a very low level.

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But the amount of penalties should be several times higher than planned, the State Duma believes.

"For families who live hard, every thousand rubles is serious money that allows them to buy medicines, slightly more expensive products, and gifts for children," the expert is sure.

However, it must be borne in mind that the prospect of granting subsidies depends not only on the total family income, but also on many other factors, such as the need to pay contributions for major repairs, adds Parfenov.

A bill proposing to change the procedure for calculating subsidies for housing and utilities has been submitted to the State Duma. The document proposes to set the maximum share of expenses for calculating subsidies for low-income Russians across the country at 15%. For single pensioners and large families — in the amount of 10%.

Currently, in most regions, you can get a subsidy if spending on utilities exceeds 22% of a citizen's total income. The regions of the Russian Federation can set a lower marginal share, but, as a rule, adhere to the federal level.

For more information about who will benefit from the proposed rules, see the Izvestia article:

Public benefit: the calculation of subsidies for housing and communal services may be changed in the Russian Federation