A heating voucher is a form of financial assistance addressed to lower-income households that heat their homes system heat — coming from, m.in, municipal heating networks. Bon was introduced by the Act of 12 September 2025.

Who is the heating voucher for?

The benefit is intended to support recipients who experience a sharp increase in the prices of system heat supplied by energy companies. As provided by the legislator, the heating voucher Households are entitled to:

1. which meet the income criterion:
a) PLN 3272.69 – a single-person household
b) PLN 2454.52 per person – a household multiplayer

2. They use heat from the district heating system supplied by the company Energy

3. When The one-component net heat price in a given tariff group is above 170 PLN net/GJ

How much does heat cost in Ełk?

According to the Heat Energy Company in Ełk Spółka z o. o. and Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa "Świt", one-component price heat in our city is much lower than the statutory threshold.

Required statutory threshold for a single-component heat price:

• above PLN 170 net/GJ

Unit price of heat – Housing Cooperative "Dawn":

• tariff group P1 - PLN 92.57 net/GJ

Unit price of heat - Przedsiębiorstwo Energetyki Cieplna in Ełk Spółka z o. o.:

• for the entire heating system – PLN 105.88 net/GJ
  
• for tariff group P1 – PLN 103.93 net/GJ
  
• for tariff group P2 – PLN 108.15 net/GJ

Too cheap to get a voucher

In practice, this means that the inhabitants of Ełk - despite the fact that other conditions, such as an adequate income or the use of system heat - they cannot receive a heating voucher. Everything because the price of heat in our city is simply too low compared to with the threshold set out in the Act.