Key Takeaways
- • Ukraine's housing utility subsidy is assigned based on average monthly total household income, calculated from income for specific quarters that depends on the timing of the application, according to the Main Pension Fund Department in Luhansk region.
- • Applicants applying at the start of the non-heating season are assessed on income for the third and fourth quarters of the previous calendar year.
- • Applicants applying at the start of the heating season are assessed on income for the first and second quarters of the current calendar year.
- • Applicants applying at other times are assessed on income for the two quarters preceding the month before the application month.
- • Included income types span salaries after tax, military pay, pensions, scholarships, unemployment benefits, foreign remittances, and dividends, with the subsidy amount set individually per household.
Summary
Housing subsidies for utility payments in Ukraine are assigned on the basis of a household's average monthly total income, according to a reminder from the Main Pension Fund Department in Luhansk region, as reported by the Sudovo-yurydychna hazeta (Судово-юридична газета). The income reference period depends on when the applicant applies. Where assistance starts at the beginning of the non-heating season, incomes for the third and fourth quarters of the previous calendar year are used. Where assistance starts at the beginning of the heating season, incomes for the first and second quarters of the current calendar year are used. Applicants who apply outside the start of either season have their incomes for the two quarters preceding the month before the application month considered.
The average monthly total household income covers a broad range of receipts. It includes salary after personal income tax and military tax deductions, military personnel pay after military tax deduction, and pensions together with the monthly lifelong monetary allowance for retired judges. Scholarships are included, with the exception of social scholarships paid to orphans, children deprived of parental care, and persons from their number. Social payments are counted except where the law excludes them, and unemployment benefits and insurance payments are also included.
The income base further captures money transfers received from abroad and dividends from securities. Other income is included where information is received from the State Tax Service, as well as income declared by the person where no corresponding State Tax Service data exists.
The subsidy amount is calculated individually for each household. It depends on the number of household members, their incomes, the list of utility services the family uses, and the cost of those services.
The average monthly total household income covers a broad range of receipts. It includes salary after personal income tax and military tax deductions, military personnel pay after military tax deduction, and pensions together with the monthly lifelong monetary allowance for retired judges. Scholarships are included, with the exception of social scholarships paid to orphans, children deprived of parental care, and persons from their number. Social payments are counted except where the law excludes them, and unemployment benefits and insurance payments are also included.
The income base further captures money transfers received from abroad and dividends from securities. Other income is included where information is received from the State Tax Service, as well as income declared by the person where no corresponding State Tax Service data exists.
The subsidy amount is calculated individually for each household. It depends on the number of household members, their incomes, the list of utility services the family uses, and the cost of those services.
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