The debt of the population of Ukraine for payment of housing and utilities services in December 2021 increased by 12% compared to November and amounted to UAH 73.7 billion (excluding electricity).
According to the State Statistics Service, in general, in December 2021 Ukrainians paid UAH 21.6 billion for housing and utilities services, which amounted to 71.1% of the amount accrued for this month.
The debt for the supplied electricity in September amounted to UAH 7.7 billion.
The highest level of payment for housing and communal services in December 2021 was recorded in Kirovohrad (82.3% of the amount of charges), Odesa (81%), Cherkasy (77.2%) regions.
The lowest level of payment is in Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Chernivtsi regions (66.9% of the amount of charges). In Kyiv, the level of payment was 68%.
According to the State Statistics Service, since the beginning of 2021, some 58,300 agreements have been concluded with the population on the repayment of restructured debt for housing and communal services for a total amount of UAH 531 million. The amount of payments made, taking into account long-term contracts, was UAH 312 million.
The data are given without taking into account the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as parts of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
