The new system of automatic access to social tariff for electricity and natural gas will be in place in July, while operating the exchange of data between traders, Social Security and the Tax Authority.
“what we have from July 1st is that people who are entitled to the social tariff will actually have access to the social tariff. the law will finally be fulfilled in Portugal, six years later,” he said today the Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Insurance Sanches after the signing of the protocols that streamline access to social tariff in Lisbon.
Speaking to journalists, the minister explained that the rate of access logic social was reversed and, from July, consumers of electricity and natural gas to meet the eligibility criteria will now benefit from discounts on the invoice
“we inverted the order of operation:. before any one of the people had to ask the [trader] company, was followed by a bureaucratic process [in which they had to prove], and now people come to be contacted by the supplier, “he added.
the recipient social tariff is informed, from 1 July, that now has discount on energy bills, taking 30 days to object, if desired.
Jorge Insurance Sanches is excused to advance the number of new beneficiaries with automatic access to social tariff, referring only to the last six months the number of beneficiaries doubled, now exceeding 180,000.
“it makes no sense to be referring to any number at this time. Would be to appoint a number that would have to be fixed. It is working towards the rigor and balance, “said the official, who was part of the team of five secretaries of state today formalized the information exchange process between the traders, the Directorate General of Geology and Energy, the Institute of social security, the Institute for Informatics and the Tax Authority, with the support of the Agency for Administrative Modernisation.
Insurance Sanches emphasized that the automatic access to social tariff it is “to fulfill the law and that much . was soon to be applied in favor of the Portuguese “
the social electricity tariff was established in 2010 in the Sócrates government, and natural gas – less significant – was introduced in 2011 as a tool social justice to protect beneficiaries end customers benefit and / or considered vulnerable economic situation.
the official also announced the creation of the Energy Observatory to check the proper functioning of the social tariff and to ensure that application the law is a reality in the future.
the automatic access to power social tariff, eliminating bureaucratic obstacles, was a measure proposed by the Left Bloc during the state budget debate (OE) for this year.
According to the Regulatory Authority for Energy Services (ERSE) announced on 19 April, the number of beneficiaries of the social tariff for electricity has almost tripled in the last year, to reach more than 140,000 families in late March .
the social tariff is discounted 33.8% in electricity access rates and 31.2% in natural gas.
the maximum annual yield is one of the criteria eligibility for consumers to access social electricity tariff, considering for such total income recorded in the fiscal domicile of the owner of the power supply contract and the number of cohabiting not Member receives any income.
Thus, the maximum annual income varies depending on the number of household items: the 5808 annual euros for a family with one element, 8712 euros per year for a family with two elements (one double), 11,616 euros per year for a family with three members (couple with one child) and 14,520 euros per year for a family with four elements.
that is, the value of the maximum annual income is increased by 50% for each additional element that may dwell in tax domicile. – up to a maximum of ten
This rate also applies to beneficiaries of the solidarity supplement for the elderly, social integration income, the social unemployment benefit, child benefit, social pension disability and social old-age pension.
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