Warsaw. Archival photoMOSCOW, 30 Aug. Polish residents are massively showing «unhealthy ingenuity» to receive coal subsidies, according to Interia. «The coal subsidy is of great interest among Poles. becomes an impetus for unhealthy ingenuity,» the publication writes.Poles without coal from Russia remembered the times of communismSo, because of the rule that the coal subsidy will not be paid according to the formula «three thousand zlotys (39,000 rubles — ed.) per stove», but «three thousand zlotys for each household using coal for heating», there is an «explosive growth» in the number of new households in the communes.» Three brothers came to us. All their lives they lived in the same house, heated the building with the same stove and submitted one declaration. Today they bring us three declarations and count on three coal subsidies of 3,000 zlotys each. After all, each of them is a separate household,” an official from the Lodz region tells the publication. Such abuses, according to Interia, are noted throughout Poland. “We have examples of married couples living in the same house who remembered that they are not together, live separately and run separate households,” said Leszek Kuliński, Vojt (headman – ed.) of the Pomeranian commune Kobylnytsia. According to Andrzej Gula, President of the Krakow Smog Alert Association, if the coal subsidy for one heat source is paid several times, then «many single-family houses will receive two or three subsidies, and many will receive none, because the program budget will be exhausted.» In total, 11.5 billion zloty (almost $2.5 billion) was allocated to the coal subsidy program, the newspaper notes. According to the promises of the government, if this amount is exceeded, then the amount of the following benefits will be reduced. «In the communes they say bluntly: under the rules that several families from the same house, heated by the same stove, will receive benefits, there is no chance that this money will be enough,» — sums up Interia. In April, Poland completely banned the import of coal from Russia, which dramatically affected the availability of coal on the market and its price. Former Deputy Prime Minister and ex-Minister of Economy of the Republic Janusz Piechocinski warned that Poland would face a «dear winter» in terms of the cost of coal. At the same time, he noted a significant decrease in coal production in the country. With the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, the West increased sanctions pressure on Moscow. Many countries have announced the freezing of Russian assets, calls have become louder to abandon energy from Russia. These measures turned out to be problems for Europe and the United States, provoking an increase in food and fuel prices. 08/0f4f9541263ecded7f0410dbc4af68ab.jpg» />Coal imported by Poland hardly replaces Russian coal, media write
