Vienna housing bonus starts – 200 euros per household will be transferred directly to the account

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Vienna Housing Bonus can be applied now. Two hundred euros will be paid out per household. Viennese citizens can apply for the Housing Bonus 2023 on Monday this week. Two hundred euros will be paid out per household. The city of Vienna would like to support tenants with the inflation and makes approximately 140 million euro available for it. Support for 700,000 Viennese householdsAbout 700,000 Viennese households are entitled to receive assistance. For a one-person family, the income limit of 40,000 euros gross applies for 2022. The income limit of…

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The new week starts hot, followed by cooling and rain showers

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The new week starts hot, followed by cooling and rain showers, according to the forecast of Geosphere Austria (formerly ZAMG). Today, Monday, there are again up to 35 degrees and thunderstorms. As early as Tuesday, significantly cooler weather will arrive, with highs around 25 degrees Celsius. Hot start to the week, and thunderstormsIn the western half today, Monday, the first showers or thunderstorms must be expected in the morning, which will intensify and spread further and become more frequent in the afternoon. In the eastern half, exceptionally sunny weather will…

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Netflix gets serious: low-cost subscriptions canceled

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Putting a stop to password sharing is not enough for Netflix. The streaming service is now also scrapping low-cost, basic plans in Canada, the UK and the US to boost revenues. There will no longer be 4 in the future but only three subscription options for new customers in these countries. For years, the ad-free basic plan was the cheapest option at Netflix. The change now introduces a low-cost subscription option with advertising and increases the price of the ad-free basic plan. Customers* will pay $15.49 instead of the original…

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Barrio Fiesta in Vienna 2023

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The Council of Filipino Associations in Austria kicked off the 2023 Barrio Fiesta in Vienna on Saturday, July 22, 2023. The annual event is a celebration with colourful costumes, song and dance at the  Sportplatz ATV Liesing, Vienna. About 2,000 Filipinos, Austrians and nationalities from Austria trooped to the venue this year. The 2023 Barrio Fiesta in Vienna simulated the mood of a traditional Filipino fiesta celebration in a festive gathering of special guests, police, politicians, community leaders and members,  and the Philippine Embassy and staff who led the opening…

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NASA: July is probably the hottest month

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July 2023 will be the world’s hottest month in “hundreds, if not thousands of years,” according to the chief climatologist at the U.S. space agency NASA. “We’re seeing unprecedented changes all over the world; the heat waves we’re seeing in the U.S., Europe, and China are breaking records,” Gavin Schmidt said. Several heat records have already been surpassed this month, according to measurements from the European Union and the University of Maine, which use ground and satellite data to create models for preliminary estimates. Although they differed slightly, the trend…

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The Vienna Housing Bonus ’23 – now available

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The Vienna Housing Bonus ’23 is a subsidy the State of Vienna provides. There is no legal entitlement to the Vienna Housing Bonus ’23. The City of Vienna sends an information letter to every address in Vienna where one or more persons have registered their primary residence as of the cut-off date of June 28, 2023. The letter contains the password you need to apply online. Two hundred euros can be paid out per Viennese address. You will receive the grant on the account you indicated in the application. If…

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WHO concerned about the spread of dengue fever also in Europe

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the spread of dengue virus, including in Europe. Aedes mosquitoes, native to tropical and subtropical climates, transmit it. However, they spread worldwide. Since 2000, the number of annual cases has increased eightfold, to an estimated 4.2 million last year, Raman Velayudhan, head of WHO’s Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, said Friday in Geneva. “Half of the world’s population is now at risk of dengue,” he said. In the WHO European region, there have already been local infections in about two dozen countries,…

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The weekend will be changeable with rain showers and thunderstorms

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Summer temperatures will remain with us over the weekend, but the tendency for showers and thunderstorms will increase considerably, according to the forecast. Temperatures will drop slightly in the coming days and, in combination with rain, offer at least some respite for heat-loving people. Friday is changeable with showers and thunderstormsOn Friday, the first showers and thunderstorms will form in the morning over the Alpine peaks and further south and southeast. According to the forecast of Geosphere Austria (formerly ZAMG), the day will start sunny in the north and east.…

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Email scams: simple mistakes that put us at risk

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If your email is compromised, you are vulnerable… here are six mistakes many people have made at some point. It’s hard to remember when we didn’t use email for everything. Work, socializing, shopping receipts, sharing photographs, sharing jokes… Our email address logs us into our banks, online shopping profiles, dating websites, and more. It’s almost as crucial to our online identity as our name is to our real-life identity. Email has gone from something so new that we had to remind people not to print them out unnecessarily to being simply…

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