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Rethusa scheme ends with a bang!
The City's Revenue & Customer Relations Management Department has successfully completed implementation of its second programme aimed at assisting poor families in the City to rehabilitate their municipal accounts and create a culture of payment among account holders.
The Reathusa Municipal Account Scheme allowed customers who were in arrears with the City to make arrangements and pay off half the money they owed. If they keep to the terms of the Scheme, half of the remaining debt will be written off by the City.
The Department's spokesperson Mandy Jean Woods says a total of 3 290 customers successfully registered for the Reathusa Municipal Account Scheme.
"We will collect a total of R48,8 million from these customers of which R24,1 million will be written off if the customers have fully complied with the rules of the scheme. In addition, a total of R7,1 million for interest and other sundry charges will be reversed against these accounts," she says.
Woods says the response to the scheme has been pleasing. "We launched the scheme in February 2006 and it closed in December 2006. I am satisfied that its has achieved its objectives. Many customers will now have an opportunity to pay off debt that as accrued over a long period of time."
Customers who did not subscribe to the scheme can still visit the City's People's Centres to make arrangements to pay off their debt. "As with everything, it is better to come in and let us help you sort things out with your account than to just leave it," says Woods.
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