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WEDNESDAY • 27 SEPTEMBER 2023 • ISSUE 861 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
BACK TO SCHOOL
State school
students
return for new
scholastic year
NICOLE MEILAK
HOUSEHOLDS and businesses
that experienced over six hours of
power cuts last July will be entitled
to a one-time payment as compen-
sation for the inconvenience.
The payment will be granted in
the form of an automatic credit to
their utility bills based on the av-
erage consumption of households
during the corresponding three-
month period of the previous year.
For example, a residential account
that had their supply interrupted
for six to eight hours will receive a
€60 credit.
Starting from the second week of
October and onwards, customers
will see a credit line item on their
ARMS bill indicating the payment
provided.
Eligible residential accounts
will be notified by letter through
ARMS. This letter will be sent out
in the coming days.
Customers with domestic ac-
counts are not included automati-
cally. However, in the cases of sum-
mer residences, people can apply
via the relevant online application
form on the ARMS website.
Customers that experienced ex-
ceptional faults during the same
period can also apply via the online
application form.
This application will open on
Monday, 9 October until 31 De-
cember this year.
KARL AZZOPARDI
TODAY marks the start of the 2023/24 scholastic
year, as 28,757 state school students return to the
benches.
7,712 state school educators returned to schools
last Monday.
A total of 5,942 kindergarten students will also be
returning to school on 2 October, meaning a grant
total of 34,699 students will enter the classrooms
by next Monday.
Buses will be picking up students along 2,410
different routes, with 925 of those being solely for
state school children.
32,833 students ranging from kindergarten to
secondary school will make use of the service.
Consumers to get one-time
payment as compensation
for July power cuts
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