What are the income criteria for the allowance?
The sale of heating oil begins today, Friday, October 13. The changes that are expected to come concern the income criteria, while this year the double bonus is “cut” for those who abandoned natural gas last year.
Particularly, the heating allowance will range from 100 euros to 800 euros, but with improved criteria for families who can see an increase in the income limit of up to 2,000 euros per child.
The annual income to grant the allowance is this year as follows:
The income limit for a single person is kept at 16,000 euros. For married people or those who entered into a cohabitation agreement without dependent children, the limit remains at 24,000 euros. Also, for each single-parent family, the basic limit without the increase due to a child or children is set again at 27,000 euros.
The increase in the limits for each dependent child increases from 3,000 to 5,000 euros.
The total income limits for families will be as follows:
- from 27,000 to 29,000 euros for each family with two parents and one child
- from 30,000 to 34,000 euros for each family with two parents and two children
- from 33,000 to 39,000 euros for each family with two parents and three children
- from 36,000 to 44,000 euros for each family with two parents and four children
- from 30,000 to 32,000 euros for each family with one parent and one child
- from 33,000 to 37,000 euros for each family with one parent and two children
- from 36,000 to 42,000 euros for each family with one parent and three children
- from 39,000 to 47,000 euros for each family with one parent and four children
The property criteria for unmarried beneficiaries is 200,000 euros. For married couples, it is 300,000 euros. The subsidized fuels are heating oil, natural gas, LPG, firewood and pellets.
For those beneficiaries who stopped using natural gas for their heating and switched to oil, or other means of heating, the allowance amounts will not be doubled, as was the case last year.
