The payment discipline of Russians regarding housing and communal services is at a high level compared to residents of other countries. About this Pravda.Ru said Valery Semikashev, head of the laboratory for forecasting the fuel and energy complex of the National Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“To do something at the state level, to introduce some new rules or tools, it seems to me that this is not something that resources should be spent on. “So there is no problem, as an expert I cannot say that this problem is important for us, we have many more problems in housing and communal services,” he said.
According to him, the increase in the collection of utility bills is due, among other things, to the widespread use of electronic payment methods for housing and communal services. To deal with defaulters, Semikashev suggested understanding why they did not pay for services and dealing with it individually.
Previous research on the Doma.ai online platform showedIt is stated that the share of Russians who pay housing and communal services on time increased from 23% to 24%. At the same time, the number of residents delinquent on payment dropped from 54 percent to 51 percent.
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Source: Gazeta
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