Pay Bills on Time or pay Fine (Fewa Announced)
Residence in UAE will need to Pay electricity and water bills on time in UAE or face cuts, 100 AED fine.
Yes,
it is true, failure to make timely payment for water and electricity bills in
United Arab Emirates will now cost more as the Federal Electricity and Water
Authority (Fewa) announced that a fine of 100 AED shall be slapped against all outstanding
fees.
This
is happening because "Consumers flout rules despite having the service
disconnected by staff inspectors after they discovered huge differences between
the amount of consumption they recorded and the current ones."
Federal
Electricity and Water Authority consumers with pending bills shall be given a
grace period of 4 days to make payment; effective from the due time they will receive
a notification as a text message on their cell phones, according to a top
official.
Text
messages will be sent to registered mobile phone numbers of FEWA consumers.
The
director general of Fewa Mr. Mohammed Saleh, warned UAE Residence that a fine
of 100 AED shall then be added to the consumer's account.
As
per Fewa, all bills have now to be settled within maximum 4 days of time."
Earlier,
Fewa used to force the consumers with pending bills at all the northern
emirates to pay extra 100 AED to reconnect the disrupted utility service, he
stated.
"This
shall be automatically added to the consumer's account instead after 4 days of an
notification as a text message to consumer registered mobile phone."
Some
consumers reportedly reconnect the service in accomplice with the watchmen of
their houses in violation of law to avoid paying the 100 AED fine slapped
against payment failure, Mr. Mohammed Saleh explained.
As
such, this extra money is not new, he underlined. "Consumers used to pay
the same to have the service reconnected, but this will be automatically added
to the consumer's account instead."
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