Thousands of builders are affected by the funding freeze.
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Berlin Many house builders can now apparently count on money for their energy-efficient houses after the sudden halt to KfW funding. According to information from the German Press Agency, the ministries involved agreed on Tuesday that applications received before the funding stop on January 24 should be processed according to the old criteria.
The federal government had prematurely stopped funding for energy-efficient buildings in view of a flood of applications and high costs. Applications could only be submitted by January 24 instead of January 31. How to deal with applications that have already been submitted but not yet approved was an open question for a long time.
The funds provided so far by the state development bank KfW are not sufficient for this: 24,000 applications remained open, 4,000 of them from private builders. They should have received up to 18,000 euros from the state for a so-called efficiency house 55 per residential unit.
According to earlier information from Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), the program would have reached a volume of 14 billion euros without stopping. At the time of the stop, applications with a volume of 7.2 billion euros were still pending. According to the government, only 1.8 billion euros were available in the budget.
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According to the current status, those house builders who still wanted to submit applications after the funding stop and before the end of the month will initially get nothing. However, the federal government is negotiating programs that are intended to replace the previous funding.
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