Macedonian households top the list of financial problems to pay for overhead costs.
Every third household in the country cannot pay its utility bills regularly.
The European Statistical Bureau Eurostat has estimated that almost 37% or 209,000 households have a financial problem paying regularly for electricity, heating and water.
Greece has the biggest problem with overhead payments from EU member states.
There, almost 36% have no money to pay regularly, followed by Bulgarians, with 30%, and Croats, with 17.5% of households having had a problem in the last 12 months with overhead.
Residents of the Netherlands, Austria, the Czech Republic and Sweden have almost no such problem. There, only 2 percent of households cannot pay their bills regularly.
According to a Eurostat survey, at EU level, almost 7% of households have a problem with regular payments.
