The inhabitants of Chisinau municipality can submit applications to get cold-month allowances for the 2015-2016 heating season. These compensations are provided to families that during the last 12 months had an average income that didn’t exceed 2,500 lei a month per member. As the previous year, the allowance represents 40% of the monthly heat bill, IPN reports.

In the October 26 meeting of officials of Chisinau services and divisions, the head of the General Public Amenities Division Petru Gontea said the persons who benefitted from cold-month allowances the previous season and have the same incomes will have to submit a confirmatory application. The potential recipients will have to present a series of documents among which the salary certificate for the last 12 months (for salary earners) and the copy of the permit or of the certificate concerning the size of pensions (for pensioners and persons with disabilities.

The applications for cold-month allowances are submitted to the municipal housing stock managing companies No. 1 – 23, regardless of the form of ownership of the dwelling, and to the mayor’s offices of the towns, villages and communes that form part of Chisinau municipality, before the closing of the heating season. Those who are eligible will get allowances for the whole heating season, regardless of the date when the application is submitted. Until the application is accepted by the Chisinau City Hall, those who consider they are entitles to allowances can pay initially only 60% of the sum indicated in the heat bill.

The local authorities announced that all the facilities and buildings in Chisinau will be connected to the centralized heating system within the second stage that started today, October 26