Five and a half million Germans could not heat their homes sufficiently in 2022 due to lack of money
Five and a half million Germans could not heat their homes sufficiently in 2022 due to lack of money
Die steigenden Energiepreise durch den Ukraine-Krieg dürften vor allem der Grund für die Heizungskrise im letzten Jahr gewesen sein. In Milionen Haushalten war es nicht richtig wam.
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As someone who rents an appartment, I do not have a sense for heating and what I can afford. I simply get the bills one year later
I take "Lacks a personal budget tool" for 100.
Seriously, get an app of your choice to keep track of your finances. It will pay for itself within days.
I'm not sure how a personal budget app can help you keep track of a Heizkostenverteiler/heating cost allocator. There's many unknowns during the operation time and even the landlord is given a year to crunch the numbers before they bill the tenants.
What is progress is that people on district heating now get their kWh consumption readings every few months.
One year, wow. And I thought having the district heating bills lag by 2-3 months due to bureaucracy was bad. 😆 Although in a way I guess it's more intuitive, if you pay for January of previous year in January. Here we pay for January in March and it's a bit weird to get a large heating bill when it's getting warm out.
In Germany you pay "in advance" and then at the end of the year they calculate how much you actually used and give you a bill stating how much you still owe or how much they'll have to refund.
A budget app won't keep track of the energy used on heating, of course. But it will sure help getting a broader overview of what the budget allows, by making obvious what the budget actually is.
To me it sounded like that was a basic problem here: Having no idea what the budget actually is. Looks like a lot of people didn't get that drift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .