Payment IDs
Let's figure out what this new form of payment document looks like in 2021. Everyone pays housing and communal services, so the information will be useful to every resident.
Officials have made a lot of changes to the utility bills, but the main thing is the appearance in it of two new fields for identifiers generated in the Housing and Communal Services GIS:
- one identifies a specific payment document;
- the second is a single personal account of the payer.
Let us remind you that the GIS housing and communal services system is a unified information system, which necessarily includes all suppliers of utilities and related services and all organizations that service apartment buildings (management companies, HOAs). It contains information about objects, services, tariffs and other important information. Homeowners have the right to connect to the system, control payments in it, services received, and even make payments.
In fact, a paper receipt for housing and communal services duplicates the payment information generated in the GIS housing and communal services for the corresponding month. Thanks to the appearance of identifiers in payment slips, data on payments made through a bank using a paper payment slip are automatically included in the GIS.
How to calculate payment for water using a meter
Paying for water by meter and electricity by meter is convenient because you can calculate in advance how much you will need to pay this month. This is easy to do using the formula:
where N is the number of consumed products, and Y is the tariff.
The volume of consumed products must be calculated independently. To do this, take a receipt for payment for the previous month and take readings for the current month. Then subtract today's indicators from those that were last month. The resulting figure is the number of consumed markets. For example, if last month the receipt showed 26 kilowatts, and this month there are already 31 on the meter, during the month you used 5 kilowatts.
The resulting number must be multiplied by the tariff. Tapifs change every year, and sometimes several times a year. Current tariffs can be viewed on the website of the local administration or on the website of the management company. If you take into account the tariffs indicated in the receipt for the previous month, the calculations may be incorrect if the tariffs have changed.
New housing and communal services receipt form: composition
In addition to the appearance of GIS housing and communal services identifiers, the payment system now contains more information for payers. That is for us. Now the payment document for housing and communal services in 2021 consists of six sections:
- Data of the payer and service provider.
- Data on the readings of individual metering devices (meters).
- Calculation of the amount of payment for the maintenance of residential premises and utilities.
- Reference Information.
- Calculation of the amount to be paid taking into account installments.
- Data on the payer’s recalculations (additional accrual +, reduction -).
Thus, right in the receipt itself, the owner or tenant of the apartment will be able to see all the information about the payments made to him for the maintenance of common property for each type of resource, the tariff and the volume of his consumption of various resources for the month. The receipt also contains information about the balance, fines and penalties. It is noteworthy that there is more information, but, on the contrary, there are fewer sections. In the previous version there were eight of them.
