According to the publication, a new version of the bill on the activity on the recovery of arrears of individuals was discussed at a meeting of the working group.

It is specified that at previous meetings, housing and communal services market participants opposed the claims procedure when working with debtors.

“They inform debtors in other ways, and the need for pre-trial work would create additional costs and other risks for them due to an increase in debt collection,” a Kommersant source said.

In this regard, collectors can get the right to work with debtors for housing services.

In November, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Housing Policy and Housing and Communal Services, Sergei Pakhomov, in an interview with the NSN, called the total amount of public debt for housing and communal services.