The national government aspires to reach at least 10 million users of gas and electricity services by the end of July, the registration deadline set to request the continuity of energy subsidies and which will not be postponed for its implementation, assured the vice president of Cammesa, Santiago Yanotti.
Until now, 3,660,254 million users of the two energy services had already uploaded their sworn statements online since July 15 to request the continuity of the subsidiesaccording to the cut made at mid-morning on Saturday.
In an interview with Télam, Yanotti stated that Decree 332, which determines the new policy in progress, “provides that those who do not sign up at this stage will lose their subsidy. Communication is intensifying and it is necessary for families to continue uploading their data from massively, but the rhythm of the segmentation scheme will continue”.
Yanotti assured that “work is being done on the sanctions that may be available”, in those cases in which the intentional falsity of an affidavit can be verified
“To date, more than 3.6 million people uploaded their data to the system, we need them to continue loading to reach an appropriate universe that we consider could be around 10 million users, but the figure that is reached will in no way determine an extension that is not contemplated or part of the analysis“Yanotti asserted.
This figure of 10 million users is estimated over an approximate universe of nine million homes with gas service through networks, and between 15 and 17 million homes with electricity service, a figure estimated by the Nation since the database of the electricity distribution is held by the provinces.
The rate of registration has been accelerating since Friday, July 15, when the opening of the Registry of Access to Energy Subsidies (RASE) was completed, first day 150,000 forms uploadedfigures that increased to over 650,000 at the peaks of this week that is ending.
Likewise, there are many more visits than forms uploaded, since since the opening, 21,480,281 accumulated visits have been registered in argentina.gob.ar/subsidios.
Of that total, more than 190,000 were completed during the first hours of the day this Saturday, of which 43,776 households in the DNI segment ending in 6, 7, 8 and 9 completed it.
The Ministry of Energy anticipates that in the first days of August it will be possible to count on the new tariff charts that will be in force, according to each of the user segments
The RASE form is completed online on the platform Webin the application of My Argentinaor in person at the offices of the National Social Security Administration (Anses) with prior shift, as well as at the offices of the energy service providers.
Yanotti pointed out that “This week it was shown that the system works well, that it is not complicated, and that no unforeseen problem was registered in any province, so it is important that users take advantage of this registration window and not wait for a future reopening”.
In this way, the progression of the work diagram that heads The Secretary of Energy foresees that in the first days of August it will be possible to count on the new tariff charts that will be in force, according to each of the user segments.
How does the registration proceed?
In parallel, this Saturday began the registration period that will last until Tuesday for those users whose documents end in 6, 7, 8 and 9, and from then on until July 31 registration will remain open without restrictions.
Once that loading instance has been completed, and the RASE has been closed, Yanotti explained that “the Energy Secretariat will proceed to cross-reference the data of the declarations with the information available to the different agencies of the national State to proceed with the classification in the scheme of each users”, which is estimated to take at least two weeks in August.
“Following this scheme, the first bills are expected to start reaching households in mid-September or mid-October at the latest“, assured the vice president of the Electricity Wholesale Market Administrative Company and one of the main officials responsible for implementing the segmentation.
“The Secretary of Energy will proceed to cross-reference the data of the declarations with the information available to the different agencies of the national State to proceed with the classification in the scheme of each user”, which is estimated to require at least two weeks in August, I affirm yanotti
Yanotti also clarified that the Ministry of Energy is advancing with provinces and municipalities in the minutes-agreement by which each jurisdiction commits to the assistance of users in the implementation of the registry, the massive diffusion of the system and in facilitating the databases. of beneficiaries of social plans and assistance benefits to the most vulnerable sectors.
“Initially, all this information will not be uploaded to the RASE automatically, but will be used to contrast the reality of that population with what was received in the sworn statements”; she stated.
In the same way, the former head of the Tucumán electricity regulator and former undersecretary of Energy Coordination assured that “Work is being done on the sanctions that may be available”, in those cases in which the intentional falsity of an affidavit can be verified.
sanctions
“In this first instance we are going to check data before proceeding to apply the regime and the user is going to be recategorized, and at the same time the sanction is going to be used so that it serves as a sufficient incentive so that they do not falsify the information”
In this way, If it is verified that the inconsistency of the load was an error, it can be rectified, but if the wrong load is confirmed, it will be subject to sanction.
What will happen to those who do not upload their data
Also those users who did not upload their data to request the continuity of subsidies they will have a later instance to join the scheme, an instance that will be carried out through an adaptation of the current RASE, but it will be after the first bills without subsidy that will reach those who are not registered, and on which there will be no refunds.
This new scheme will allow the National Treasury a reduction of subsidies by about $15,000 million for this 2022while for the next year it would rise to $ 80,000 million, according to initial estimates.
The main objective of this policy is to achieve reasonable and fair rates for the value of the energy, for which a distribution of subsidies based on the economic capacity of each household.
For this, three groups were established that differentiate high-income users in the first instance, those who will gradually lose the electricity and gas subsidy this year in the three bimonthly periods following the implementation of the new rate schedules. .
The other two middle- and low-income population strata will not receive any reduction in subsidies this year, and the two rate increases planned for 2022 are maintained for them.
