Electricity and gas bills, terrible blows continue to arrive at Italian families. And there is also an additional insult in most cases
Paying a bill in installmentstoday, it becomes practically inevitable to amortize a little i huge costs that it is raining in these hours in the families of Italians. Moreover, for never several weeks, there have been real stinges both in terms of light and gas. Payment requests that fluctuate on average from 300 to 400 euros for very normal families, over 1,000 for small business owners.
Unfortunately, it is the result of the increases in general which entered with the arrival of the new 2022 and accentuated with the explosion of the war on the axis Russia-Ukraine. And what can a family do with children, but also without, if not ask for an installment against a payment of half the full salary? And the same is also true for a worker who tries, with difficulty, to carry on his business after having already taken the blows of the Covid-19.
Bills, the bitter discovery on installments
What not everyone knows, however, is that behind the installment it hides a real joke In many cases. This does not logically apply to all suppliers, but to most. What happens: rather than actually making the payment in installments by issuing bills that can be paid month by month, often some companions divide the payment and then insert them only in the next bill bimonthly or more.
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Translated: for example, those who have paid in installments a bill of 300 euros in February paying just the first part of the 80 € payment, he will not be able to make a new payment in March. Rather, he will have to wait directly until May when the new bill, certainly high, will also present the installments – always following the example – of 60 euros in March and April.
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Fractions are therefore considered monthly from a formal point of view, but with the impossibility of really paying month by month on a practical level. With the risk, therefore, of find each other point and start again a few months later and get into a dangerous loop. At the time of the installment, therefore, the advice is to ask how this would actually be handled to the operator on call.
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