They will convene a public hearing in April to segment rate increases in the 2022/23 biennium
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The Government will convene public hearings to analyze the tariff scheme for electricity and gas in the 2022/2023 biennium, with the criterion of segmentation and without exceeding the level of salaries, the presidential spokeswoman, Gabriela Cerruti, reported this Thursday.
In a press conference held virtually, Cerruti pointed out that the rate scheme will be applied with “subsidies focused on vulnerable users and those with less ability to pay for the 2022/2023 biennium,” in line with what was agreed with the Fund. International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Cerruti explained that the national Executive Power will promote, after a public hearing convened at the end of April 2022, the measures that trace a path for the 2022-2023 biennium, a new tariff proposal with a subsidy segmentation scheme.
This scheme, he added, will focus “the state effort on those vulnerable users and with less capacity to pay and encouraging the adoption of measures that induce the rational use of services.”
The three levels contemplated for the segmentation of the 2022-2023 biennium
TO Users who will no longer be beneficiaries of the energy consumption subsidy based on their full ability to pay.
B. Beneficiary users of the social rate, for whom the total increase in their bill for each calendar year will be equivalent to 40% of the CVS of the previous year.
C For the rest of the users, the total increase in the invoice for each calendar year will be equivalent to 80% of the CVS corresponding to the previous year.
It should be remembered that the salary index for 2021 was 53.4%, according to the latest report from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
The spokeswoman pointed out that “during the years 2022 and 2023, no other increases above the planned limits may be contemplated, for user segmentation categories b) and c), if the government successfully implements the proposed segmentation scheme.”
The proposal for non-residential users contemplates the payment of the full rate for Large Distributor Users (GUDI), and for the rest, a rate review will proceed according to the proposal defined in the public hearing.
