Municipal accounts - Buffalo City
Municipal accounts - Buffalo City
Municipal accounts - Buffalo City
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Arrangements by Indigent Consumers<br />
1. You must have an electricity prepayment meter installed at your house.<br />
2. You are required to pay your current monthly account, which is the amount after indigent subsidy<br />
has been deducted, regularly every month by the due date.<br />
3. Your current monthly account will be payable before you may purchase electricity each month.<br />
Thereafter 40% of payment tendered to purchase electricity will be allocated to arrears.<br />
4. As an Indigent consumer you will not be charged interest on arrear debt.<br />
Arrangements by non-Indigent Low Income Consumers<br />
1. This category is determined by the municipal value of the property in which the consumer lives.<br />
Council will determine the threshold value from time to time.<br />
2. You must have an electricity prepayment meter installed at your house.<br />
3. You are required to pay your current monthly account regularly every month by the due date.<br />
4. Your current monthly account will be payable before you may purchase electricity each month.<br />
5. Thereafter 40% of payment tendered to purchase electricity will be allocated to arrears.<br />
Arrangements by non-Indigent Consumers<br />
1. You are required to pay your current monthly account regularly every month by the due date plus<br />
an agreed payment towards your arrear debt.<br />
2. Your instalment will be calculated according to the following:<br />
a) Gross household income up to R8000<br />
i) The down-payment will be equal to two month’s charges<br />
ii) The balance is payable over 24 months plus the current monthly account interest<br />
free, provided payments are made by the due date each month<br />
b) Gross household income over R8000<br />
i) The down-payment will be equal to four month’s charges<br />
ii) The balance is payable over 12 months plus the current monthly account interest<br />
free, provided payments are made by the due date each month<br />
Arrangements by Businesses<br />
1. You are required to pay 50% of the capital arrear debt as a down-payment.<br />
2. The balance is payable over 6 months plus the current monthly account interest free, provided<br />
payments are made by the due date each month<br />
It is important that you visit the nearest municipal office to make the necessary arrangement<br />
and to sign an arrangement agreement that includes an acknowledgement of debt agreement.<br />
What will happen if I break my arrangement?<br />
1. If you are a domestic consumer, Council may entertain one more arrangement with the following<br />
stipulations:<br />
a) Gross household income up to R8000<br />
i) The down-payment will be equal to 25% of the existing debt<br />
ii) The balance is payable over 24 months plus the current monthly account interest<br />
free, provided payments are made by the due date each month<br />
<strong>Buffalo</strong><strong>City</strong>Metropolitan<strong>Municipal</strong>ity<br />
BUFFALO CITY<br />
METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY<br />
C O N S U M E R G U I D E
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