The online platform compensatii.gov.md was launched. Household customers can register and apply for subsidies for energy. The electronic system enables to collect the data needed to classify the citizens into energy vulnerability categories. The subsidies for November – March will be transferred directly to suppliers and will be indicated in the gas, heat and electricity bills, IPN reports.

In a news conference, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Marcel Spatari said the registration of households will last for a month and a half, until November 25. The first subsidies will be indicated in the bills for November. The process will continue after this date but the energy vulnerability category will start to be applied when the applicant is registered. “The first subsidies will be provided based on the bills for November that will be issued at the beginning of December. In the bill, household customers will see their vulnerability category and the relevant subsidy. In November, the Government will adopt a decision that will specify the size of subsidies for each vulnerability category,” stated Marcel Spatari.

The subsidies will be different and will depend on the energy vulnerability category into which the household fell. Household customers will be classified into five energy vulnerability categories: very high energy vulnerability, high energy vulnerability, moderate energy vulnerability, reduced energy vulnerability, and non-energy vulnerable consumers.

The consumers will be classified into categories depending on the income, the number of family members, the energy costs’ share of the household’s consumption, the type of used heating system, etc.

Consumers will register on www.compensatii.gov.md by filling out a form. The persons who do not have access to the Internet or do not have skills to complete the form will be helped by registrars, namely community social assistants, librarians, culture division workers and other empowered persons from the locality.