The Secretary of Energy, Eduardo Rodríguez Chirilloannounced Friday that the state is analyzing the possibility of subsidizing families exclusively when your electricity and gas expenses exceed 10% of the family group’s income.
This was said this Friday in an interview with Radio Mitrathe first after Rodríguez Chirillo, expert in privatizations who developed a good part of his career in Spain and Mexico, until last year when he began to deal with economics, energy and deregulation of the economy a Javier Milei.
The official proposal on the changes to segmentation of tariffs and subsidies energy, with the formation of a “Basic energy basket”, will be presented in a public hearing next Thursday, February 29th. It is expected at this time that the Secretary of Energy publish previous papers on your website for the industry to evaluate.
“This is a new design that we are making based on quantity members of the cohabiting group and the area of the country in which they reside. Therefore, if that basket of essential consumption, when it represents, for example, 10% of the income that the cohabiting group has, then the State will exit cover the spread of how much it costs,” said the Energy Minister.
The limit of 10% of income of a “cohabiting group” is not accidental: above this value, at an international level, individuals and families are considered to fall within the “energy poverty”.
According to reports from Interdisciplinary Institute of Political Economy (IIEP) of UBA and ConicetIn 2019 -when energy prices almost reflected real costs, after an adjustment process lasting 3 years- On average, families allocate around 5% of their income to paying for electricity and gas..
To implement the Basic Energy Basket, users could be involved voluntarily enter your data of housing and income in a register, as it was from August 2022 the Register of Access to Energy Subsidies (RASE). However, the government ensures that it has databases to verify that the information provided by users is correct the logical incentive will always be under-declaration.
A great challenge ahead of us Freedom advancesin that case, it’s the huge one mass of informal workers, without the possibility of justifying their income. It also remains to be known what will happen to the social ratehighly accepted and recommended by specialists.
During the interview with Eduardo Feinmann and his team, Rodríguez Chirillo, talked about the increase in electricity tariffs up to 150% media which was made official this Friday and anticipated itat the beginning of March there could be news with gas natural through networks.
In this sense, although he did not want to provide details, he implied that a flat rate”: that is, the cost of tickets would be the same all year round, so as not to have sudden jumps in winter, the period of greatest consumption.
Source: Clarin
