The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution on the implementation of a pilot project to provide additional support to the population for the purchase of solid household heating fuel during the 2023-2024 heating season. Beneficiaries will be able to receive UAH 13.6 thousand, and subsidized persons - UAH 16.2 thousand. This is stated in the government decree of November 7, 2023, No. 1173.

The sources of funding for the pilot project are state budget funds, as well as funds used with the consent of foreign governments, international organizations, and donor agencies.

The payments will be available to people who live in residential premises (houses), do not receive a utility service for the supply of heat energy for centralized heating (heat supply) and do not use natural gas or electricity for individual heating, and during 2023-2024.

According to the document, during the pilot project period:


1) additional support to the population for the purchase of solid household stove fuel under the pilot project is provided according to the following standards:

minimum standards for providing the population with solid household stove fuel for the provision of benefits - the amount of solid fuel that can produce 12,064,500 Kcal of heat (which can be approximately obtained from 6.22 tons of freshly cut wood with a moisture level of 50% or 1.87 tons of coal available on the Ukrainian market);

minimum standards for providing the population with solid household stove fuel for housing subsidies - the amount of solid fuel that can produce 14,367,096 Kcal of heat per household per year (approximately can be obtained from 7.41 tons of freshly cut wood with a moisture level or 2 tons of coal available on the Ukrainian market);

2) to provide support to the population for the purchase of solid stove fuel in the heating season of 2023-2024, the following threshold for the cost of solid stove fuel is applied - 0.001129935 UAH per 1 Kcal.