They try to pay attention to the special living conditions when they develop the new overhead protection rules - this is what State Secretary Csaba Dömötör promised on Kossuth Rádio. This may be the case for those who do not use gas at all, but use a lot of electricity, or families living in small settlements may be subject to slightly different rules. The specialists are already working on the details. The government continues to emphasize that the war and EU sanctions are the cause of the extraordinary price increases, but the utility reduction is still provided up to the average consumption, the M1 News reported.
The man from Kesztölc interviewed by M1 News also regularly reads the readings of the electricity and gas meters. So you know exactly how much they are consuming. Based on this, he made a quick calculation and came to the conclusion that they are not or only slightly affected by the change on August 1st, when the new overhead protection system comes into effect. But this will save even more on lighting and lower the heating a few degrees.
The majority of energy consumers are not expected to see any drastic changes in their utility costs.
Of the more than five million electricity users, more than four million have an average consumption or below, and two-thirds of the 3.5 million gas consumers use energy equal to or below the average.
For electricity, this is 210 kilowatt-hours per month, which translates to HUF 7,750. Without utility reduction, however, it would be almost HUF 51,000. The average monthly gas consumption is 144 cubic meters, which costs HUF 15,833. If there was no utility reduction, then more than HUF 131,000 would have to be paid.
Large families continue to receive gas at a discount, and for each child they are entitled to an extra 300 cubic meters of consumption per year.
There are different living conditions, so a uniform rule cannot be applied. The National Association of Large Families (NOE) discussed these with the government. President Katalin Kardosné Gyurkó said on the M1: for 12 years, families have always received the greatest possible support, and they can count on this in the future as well.
"Wartime inflation and wartime prices call into question everything we've been used to," the Prime Minister emphasized.
Residential electricity and gas prices were the highest in Hungary in 2012. As a result of the overhead reduction that came into effect in 2013, it decreased for two years and has remained the same since then, according to Mandiner's analysis. The portal highlighted: it is impossible to compare how much less the overhead burden is on families today than in 2010.
Source, full article and highlighted (screen) image: hirado.hu
