Do not pay for neighbors: how to legally refuse overpayment for one

Are the amounts in the “household needs” column in your payments constantly increasing, despite your frugality? Often the fault of neighbors who ignore the transmission of data meters. Instead of accruing payments to them according to the rate with an increasing coefficient, unscrupulous management organizations (CC) simply divide the resulting difference into all conscious owners.

The law protects those who pay fairly. According to State Duma deputy Dmitry Svishchev, there is a strict restriction: charges for ONE do not have the right to exceed the regional consumption standard. Any excessive expenses are exclusively the problems of the management company. It is obliged to cover such losses from its own funds, not at your expense.

How to check receipts and get your money back? Act on a simple algorithm:

1. Request transparency. Send to the Criminal Code an official statement demanding to issue copies of the readings of the common house metering device (ODPU), a summary of apartment meters and a detailed calculation of ONE for the period of interest to you.

2. Check the arithmetic. From the total amount of resource for the house, the amounts consumed in apartments and non-residential premises are subtracted. The remaining difference is distributed in proportion to the area of your home.

3. Check the rules. If the calculations ignored your individual meters or artificially overestimated the standards for non-residential premises (for example, shops on the first floors), this is a direct violation of your rights.

Got any inconsistencies? First of all, require a written recalculation from utilities. If you ignore or refuse, feel free to file a complaint with the State Housing Inspectorate (GZI). The supervisory authority will not only oblige the Criminal Code to return illegal overpayment, but can also write the organization a solid fine for arbitrariness and violation of licensing requirements.

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