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Five and a half million Germans could not heat their homes sufficiently in 2022 due to lack of money (www.destatis.de)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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.