Friday, February 26, 2016

Minister of Economy says that extending social tariff is “important” – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The economy minister defended the extension of social tariff as proposed by the Left Bloc this week.

“This is an important matter that goes to the income of the poor, is an area where there was an implementation issue and had there is a solution, “said Manuel Caldeira Cabral this Wednesday, February 24th.

” we applaud the initiative of the Left Bloc. we were already studying the implementation, but is better in the state budget, is harder, “said the minister in parliament during the hearing of the economy committee.

also the Secretary of State for Energy advocated the extension of the measure and that the proposal will give only” comply with a diploma cool that already exists since 2010 “.
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” it was expected to reach one million families, but this situation has never been implemented because there was no automatism that would allow, “said Jorge Insurance Sanches.

If the social rate came to 500 000 provided for consumers, rebates would amount to 28 million euros, but “only 20% were allocated for the social tariff”.

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