Tiborszállás Község Önkormányzata Képgyörületének 5/2025.(VIII. 13.) önkormányzati rendelet 5/2025.(VIII. 13.)
On social fuel aid
[1] The Representative Body of Tiborszállás Község, acting on the basis of the authority granted in Section 26 of Act III of 1993 on Social Administration and Social Benefits, Act CLXXXIX of 2011 on Local Governments of Hungary, Act 13 (1) paragraph 8.a) of Section 13.
[2] for the purpose of establishing the conditions for the allocation of firewood awarded in the 2025 social firewood tender, hereby decrees the following:
- § [General provisions]
(1) The municipality, contributing to the cost of fuel, shall provide once a year free of charge social fuel (firewood) in kind to persons in social need.
(2) Support for social fuel (firewood) may be granted to the Municipality of Tiborszállás up to the total amount specified in the supporting document of the tender "Additional support for the purchase of social fuel by municipalities" announced by the Ministry of the Interior.
(3) The social fuel (firewood) allowance is granted on application. The Mayor shall decide on applications by decision. The application must be accompanied by:
- a) a certificate of income for the applicant and his/her family for the month preceding the month of application, or a pension slip in the case of pensioners,
- b) a declaration of how the dwelling occupied by the household is heated (only gas, gas and mixed-fuel boiler-stoves or only mixed-fuel boiler-stoves),
- c) a declaration as to whether the persons living in the household or at least one person is in receipt of an active-age benefit or an old-age pension or a municipal allowance, in particular an allowance for regular housing maintenance expenses, or whether there are children with multiple disadvantages in the family.
(4) The data provided in the application and the information contained in the declaration can be verified by means of an environmental report.
(5) The information concerning the date and deadline for submitting the application shall be published in the usual manner in the locality (publication on the notice board of the Tiborszállás branch of the Mikkeli Local Government Office). Failure to comply with the time limit specified in the notice shall result in forfeiture of the right to apply.
(6) The benefit in kind provided for by this Regulation may be granted to only one beneficiary for the same housing unit, irrespective of the number of persons and households living there.
(7) The social fuel (firewood) allowance shall be established as a benefit in kind in the form of firewood. The municipality shall purchase and distribute the firewood and shall not charge any consideration for it.
- § [Eligibility criteria]
(1) The mayor shall provide free of charge social fuel (firewood) to a socially deprived person who:
- a) the monthly per capita income of his/her household does not exceed 500% of the current minimum amount of the old-age pension, or 550% in the case of a single person, and
- b) none of the persons living in the same household has any assets.
(2) In the evaluation, preference shall be given to those who:
- a) you are entitled to an active-age pension, or
- b) you are entitled to an old-age pension, or
- c) receive municipal assistance, in particular assistance for regular housing maintenance expenses, or
- d) a family with a child with multiple disadvantages as defined in Act XXXI of 1997 on the Protection of Children and Guardianship Administration.
(3) The amount of the social firewood allowance per applicant shall be at least 1 forest cubic metre of firewood, but not more than 2 forest cubic metres of firewood.
(4) If the holder sells the firewood provided to him/her under this Regulation, or if it is subsequently established that it was not used by the holder, he/she shall be obliged to repay 20.500.-Ft/m3 + VAT and the cost of delivery (HUF 5000-.Ft) in the case of firewood provided without reimbursement.
- § [Repealing provision]
The Municipal Decree 10/2020 (X. 1.) on social firewood subsidies is repealed.
- § [Final provision]
This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 August 2025.