City of Johannesburg ready to write off your debt through the rehabilitation program.

 City of johannesburg has started a rehabilitation program. The debt rehabilitation programme aims to bring about a new approach to the increasing debtors in the City. 

Member of Mayoral Committee (MMC) for finance, Matshidiso Mfikoe assured citizens that qualifying customers will receive immediate relief through a fifty percent debt write off. 

 The minister reiterated that if the customer complies with all the requirements of the programme, which include keeping their current accounts up to date and allowing for regular inspection of metered services, then the remaining outstanding debt will be written off over a three-year period, because for years, residents existing on the fringes of the active economy have struggled to pay for Municipal Rates and Services.

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Once you’ve applied and we can prove that one is really not working or being affected by covid, then we will immediately write of your fifty percent and the remaining fifty over the period of three years. Over that period, there’s going to be an ongoing assessment so that we identify wether your financially situation has improved, if it has, then we will take you off the program. So it fifty percent on the go to be written off.