All customers of electricity and gas were entitled to social tariff and that, until now, were not to make use of this measure will now pay less from July 1 this year.
according to the presented this afternoon by the Government, the crossover work between the data of the energy companies, Social Security and the Tax Authority that allows the discount to be assigned automatically is already completed and on July 1 the ” new “beneficiaries will start receiving the discount is about 33.8% in light and 31.2% in the gas.
These clients are advised by the company that became beneficiaries, document where they are also asked if they want to refuse this support, with a deadline of 30 days to do so. If say you do not want to be beneficiaries, the discount received on July 1 will be reset.
Despite all the data crossing work already done, the government declined to reveal how many these new beneficiaries, how it will be on July 1 and will even reach a million families, as had been proposed by the Left Bloc and accepted by the PS at the beginning of the year.
“We we have a target of a number, we have a goal to enforce the law. And the law will be finally fulfilled six years after [the social tariff comes into force], said the Secretary of State for Energy, Jorge Sanches Insurance, an event held at the Ministry of Economy precisely to make a situation of this measure. “I’m more concerned that those who have the right [to social tariff] to benefit,” commented yet.
According to the official, the number of these new beneficiaries will only be known on 1 July, “because the process will be hit in the coming weeks “and because” the process is dynamic and can get more beneficiaries. ” For example, if a customer to receive an allowance or being unemployed becomes automatically receive the discount of the share price.
At this point, he said the secretary of state, there are already “more than 180 thousand beneficiaries “social tariff in Portugal, which” is already double what existed six months ago. ” It is these 180 000 who will join after the new beneficiary which receive the discount on 1 July.
However, insurance Sanches emphasized several times during the meeting, which are not the numbers matter in this case, but the fact that, from now the process of allocation of the tariff is automatic.
“we inverted the order of operation. What happened before was that people had to ask the company to have a social tariff and then followed up a bureaucratic process [in which they had to deliver documents by Social Security to prove that they were eligible]. Now people come to be contacted by the supplier, “he said.
In other words, those who have light and gas contract does not have to do anything. If the beneficiary of the social tariff will be notified and begins immediately to receive the discount from the moment the Social Security the Tax Authority say they are entitled to.
The mechanics are simple, but it was necessary approval National Data Protection for companies could pass the General Directorate of Energy Commission (DGE) to all information of its customers, both the regulated market and the free market.
This customer universe was then sent to the social Security and the Tax Authority who crossed the data of companies with their and realized that customers were eligible within the criteria that give access to the social tariff. This screening was then passed back to the DGE and then again to businesses and then apply the discount directly to customers.
This process has now been completed for the current reality but, as said the Secretary of State, is a dynamic process because there are people who move home, there are those who miss the allowances or employment and as such is always necessary to have this exchange of data between the various entities. A process that ensures the manager, “is faster than it looks.”
Insurance Sanches also announced that, as part of PS’s proposal to change the mechanics of social tariff, making automatic assignments, an Energy Observatory was created to “ensure that the law is being properly applied”.
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