Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU) has welcomed the planned relief for owners of oil, pellet and liquid gas heating systems as "late, but right". "The decision also benefits many people in Hesse who live in the countryside and do not heat with gas or district heating," he said in Wiesbaden on Wednesday. With this step, the federal government is closing a gap in justice that the federal states have pointed out again and again in the negotiations with the Federal Chancellor. Rhein criticized: "If the federal government had listened to the states a little faster, they could have prepared better for the payment."
After the decision of the traffic light factions in Berlin, a total of 1.8 billion euros from the Economic Stabilization Fund should be made available for users of oil, pellet and liquid gas heating systems. Anyone who runs a stove with logs or coal can also hope for support. Details are to be regulated in a federal-state agreement.
