Media: Ukrainians lined up in mile-long queues for housing subsidies
Fresh rates since the beginning of the heating season forced the Ukrainians mass to contact the Department of labor and protection of residents for subsidies to service utilities, informs journal.
" They (subsidies - approx. Ed.) put families whose income per family member does not exceed the subsistence minimum - 1218 UAH. Also eligible for the subsidy are those whose rent exceeds 15% of the total family income (in the case of pensioners - 10%). In the end the officials lined kilometer queue ", - writes the print edition.
According to the magazine, previously, these queues never was. Now the application for subsidies take only a month in advance - in many communities Residents applying on social payments at the present time, can only be taken at the end of November.
in addition, decreased and the volume of subsidies. Instead of still 70-100 UAH Now citizens have the opportunity to get allegedly 48, reported the " News ". The Ukrainian authorities explain such a reduction in benefits by the decision to reduce the rate of gas consumption almost in 2 times. Anyway, then the government has announced that social standards is not affected, and resembles a log.