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Joburg pensioners to get massive rebates on property rates Mpho Raborife, News24, Johannesburg, 26 May 2015 Pensioners over 70 who own a house worth R2m or less will receive a 100% rebate on their property rates from the City of Johannesburg, financial mayoral committee member Geoffrey Makhubo said on Tuesday. The price of electricity would however increase by 12.19%, he said while delivering the city's budget speech in Sandton. He said the rebates were designed to provide relief to residents. Pensioners who earned less than R7 850 a month would also get a 100% rebate. Those earning more than R7 850, but less than R13 457, would qualify for a 50% rebate. "Child-headed households with property value not exceeding R2m receive 100% rebate on properties," Makhubo said. All households in the city were already receiving six kilolitres of water for free monthly. A subsidised water tariff was in place for those using prepaid meters, he said. There would also be subsidies for sanitation and sewerage tariffs. Makhuba announced increases in property, electricity and other essential services rates. The electricity price increase was in line with the National Energy Regulator of SA and Eskom's proposed increases. "The message we want to convey to our residents is: the less electricity consumers use, the less they pay." The cost of waste removal services would increase by 8%, and that of water, sewerage and sanitation services by 14%. Property rates would increase by 6%, he said. From: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Joburg-pensioners-to-get-massive-reba tes-on-property-rates-20150526 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
