Due to the rate increase, 10% of users will pay $ 6,000 a month on average

The Government has added new socioeconomic standards to segment electricity and gas subsidies. The modality is being promoted by a group linked to the Minister of the Economy, Martín Guzmán, to determine which households should keep the subsidies or not. According to this measure, the revenue floor to include the sector with the highest purchasing power was at $ 314,000 in March.

This is how it emerged from a document from the Undersecretary of Energy Planning, who manages Santiago Lopez Osornio, a Guzmán man within the Secretary of Energy, headed by Darío Martínez. The economist from the University of La Plata – like the minister – has advanced “complementary” standards to the standards of the Electric Power Regulatory Entity (ENRE) and CONICET.

The undersecretary of Electric Energy, Federico Basualdo, and the head of ENRE, Soledad Manín, prepared segmentation maps based on the cost of housing in AMBA. However, due to the difficulties in applying it at the national level, the work suggested having them analysis of the socioeconomic situation of supply holders, beyond geolocation.

Guzmán’s bishop moved forward on this path and took as a threshold to define the segment with high payment capacity, revenues higher than value of 3.5 Total Basic Baskets (CBT) –the poverty family basket – for the case of a household consisting of four members (a 35 year old man, a 31 year old woman, an 8 year old daughter and a 6 year old son male). In March, according to INDEC, that amount reached $ 314,000.

“I mean, just From the income level, the level of subsidies will be significantly reduced “, taught Energy Planning. And more, it specifies that “even, the number of CBTs evaluated as a threshold can be modified to reduce integration errors in segments with fewer subsidies or increase the coverage of said segment.”

In addition, holders with high payment capacity are considered to be those who have planes or expensive boats, with 3 or more registered assets or with 3 or more motor vehicles five years old or less.

“The ENRE measure applies to AMBA and cannot be extrapolated to other parts of the country, this document suggests that there is a complementary standard according to the socioeconomic level, with income and assets, it can be applied to other part of the country, “officials said of the source.

In its document, the Osornio area shows that income -related energy expenditure is higher for the poorest households and that, as consumption grows according to income level, the amount of subsidies also increases. , which is rated as a “pro-rich bias”. Guzmán raised it exactly a year ago and inspired the interior with Kirchnerism.

The analysis includes calculating subsidies to households according to their income and decile in 2021. A box shows that those with the highest ability to pay, with incomes of $ 3.2 million per year, they received electricity and gas subsidies of nearly $ 73,000 a year, an average of $ 6,000 a month. The lowest-income sector-$ 206,180-, meanwhile, receives nearly $ 45,000 annually, an average of $ 3,700 per month.

In this way, the subsidies represent 2.2% of the decile income with the highest income and 21.5% of those with the lowest income.

“The weight of these subsidies as a percentage of total family income suggests that the elimination of subsidies on high-income deciles will not have a significant impact on disposable income in these sectors,” he said. said Planning.