The government will require all gas and electricity users to register in a registry to define who will continue with the subsidies

Government will require all gas and electricity users to register in a register to define who will continue to receive tariff concessions.

The formula will be available from next weekofficial sources confirmed this Clarione.

The data they will ask for in the new registry have not yet come out, but the Government’s objective is add information to anticipate the cut in the bills of middle and upper class households.

Although the measure reaches all users regardless of their level of electricity and gas consumption, the same sources have anticipated it there will be flexibility with the most vulnerable sectors.

They explained that in cases of low-income families who do not join, the state will verify your situation by itself with the information already in its possession: it will check, for example, if they are beneficiaries of social plans.

If it is confirmed that they meet the requirements, these families will keep the benefits even if they have not completed the form necessary.

That “contemplation” won’t happen with average and high consumers.

The increase decree

The Government finally published the decree establishing the three categories of users that electricity and gas tariffs will have to be fixed, and that they will stop receiving subsidies and will have stronger increases in their bills.

10% of the populationaccording to the data processed in Economics, it will no longer be subsidized.

The place of residence of the owner of the service will not be taken, as was said initially, but your income and assets will be evaluated. That is why the government will implement the new registry.

These high-level customers will pay “the full cost of the energy component of the respective service,” said the Legal and Technical Secretariat.

This implies that a family who paid a $ 2,000 a month bill for electricity will go to more than $ 6,000 (approximately $ 6,400), according to estimates made by consultants and also circulating in government offices. The same would happen with gas bills.

The increase will be between 210% and 220%, according to specialists, which implies that the final amounts of the invoices it will triple by the end of the year. As announced, the new values ​​will apply retroactively in June.

Although it announced the measure, the government left several issues pending over its implementation. As reported, the removal of grants will take place in three stages.

News in development.