Electricity prices rise: Vienna Energy helps with compensation bonus for the needy!

Electricity prices rise: Vienna Energy helps with compensation bonus for the needy!

Wien, Österreich - From today there is important financial support for households with low incomes in Vienna: the Compensation bonus of 100 euros . In view of the upcoming significant electricity price increases, many electricity customers have to expect at least one third to increase this year. The network charges increase, the funding for renewable energies is increased and the previous electricity price brake is eliminated, as the ORF reports. These developments make the granting of the compensation bonus all the more necessary to reduce the financial pressure on needy households.

The compensation bonus will be deducted from the next partial amounts in tranches and is eligible to apply by June 30, 2025. Those who are proven to be exempt from the ORF budget tax are entitled to this. The application can be easily made online, by post or directly in the service centers of Vienna energie in Spittelau, Erdberg and Guntramsdorf. The initiative is part of a more comprehensive social engagement of Vienna Energie, which has been operating an ombudsman for social hardship cases for 15 years. According to Vienna Energie, social packages with a total value of 22 million euros, which gave more than 2,000 people a support, which underlines the importance of this help, as also the confirmed.