{"id":511884,"date":"2026-01-23T18:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=511884"},"modified":"2026-01-24T01:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:33:55","slug":"belarus-sets-maximum-housing-and-utility-tariffs-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-sets-maximum-housing-and-utility-tariffs-for-2026","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Sets Maximum Housing and Utility Tariffs for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> has signed a decree setting maximum allowable tariffs for housing and utility services for 2026, his press office reported.<\/p>\n<p>Payments for the population (calculated for a family of three living in a two-room apartment with a total area of 48 square meters and consuming services at standard rates) will increase within 0.5 of a base unit, or by 22.5 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff increase will take place in two stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>from January \u2014 for all services except heating and hot water supply, by 19.37 rubles,<\/li>\n<li>from June \u2014 for thermal energy for heating and hot water supply, by 3.13 rubles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2026, the share of housing and utility payments in the income of a family of three with two employed members earning the national average wage will amount to 3.5 percent, while for a family of two pensioners it will be 7.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Non-cash housing subsidies are \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0443\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u044b for citizens and families whose monthly utility payments exceed 20 percent of their average monthly total income in urban areas and 15 percent in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka has signed a decree setting maximum allowable tariffs for housing and utility services for 2026, his press office reported. Payments for the population (calculated for a family of three living in a two-room apartment with a total area of 48 square meters and consuming services at standard rates) will increase within 0.5 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6973f7595a811.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Sets Maximum Housing and Utility Tariffs for 2026"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}