The Secretary of Energy of the Nation, Dario Martinez, affirmed last Friday that “it is the objective of the Government that the subsidies in Argentina are used in a more efficient and intelligent way”, in a press conference that he gave at the Casa Rosada. The situation of this particular group was analyzed and some measures will begin to be taken, to clarify the panorama.
Tenants: will they be able to maintain electricity and gas subsidies?
The decision to segment rates applies to owners but does not specifically address the situation of those who rent a home. For them, the parameters established in the decree 332/2022 published in the Official Gazette.
The problem arose from the situation of most of the tenantswho do not have the ballots of the services to your name. The elimination of subsidies, around 10% of the population estimated from the national government, will mean that they must pay the full cost of public services of electric power and natural gas by network.
The doubt was generated shortly after the announcements of the Government. Thousands of tenants wondered what will happen to the amounts of their future bills if the owner to whom they rent the house is within that 10% of high income or in the “High Level”.
Rate segmentation: what will happen to tenants
The gray in the letter of the rate segmentation decree opened the debate and many tenants, who have incomes of less than $350,000 per month, expressed concern about whether the subsidy corresponds to them. The answer is that they will have the benefit, regardless of the economic situation of the owner of the property.
To do this, the Government created an rspecial register which aims to respond to these cases. It will be through the form at https://www.argentina.gob.ar/subsidios, which is already available. It can also be accessed from My Argentina or go in person to an ANSES office, with a shift, to carry out the procedure.
After completing the personal data, in the next step the user will be asked if he is “Owner” or “Tenant”. There he must complete according to his current housing situation. In addition, the Government implemented the possibility of informing if the person who lives at that address and pays the bill month by month is or is not the owner of the service.
In the next option, the user must answer if the service is in his name or not. In the event that it indicates no, a situation reported by most of the tenants throughout the country, they must complete with the name that appears on the service ticket. In this way, after analyzing the socioeconomic data required by the form, whoever rents a home will be able to access the benefit of gas and electricity subsidies.
Rate segmentation: what are the requirements to register
This measure is independent of whether the owner to whom they rent has one, two or several properties. From the Secretary of Energy they advanced that no residential user will be required to show the rental contract. But you will have to state, as a sworn statement, that the home you live in is not yours. Any inconsistency in that statement (when cross-checking it with other records) can lead to subsidy removal.
The system will be the same as for the owners of the property, they advanced. In other words, each household must be registered in a category called “Residential user of the service”. Tenants below the $350,000 monthly income level, must be recorded in this special register. There you must notify if you rent or not, or if the service of the dwelling you live in is in your name, or that of another person, so that the system has a new registration, with updated data.
It will also be considered that in the event that the tenant moves, and his income remains below the estimated threshold, he will maintain the subsidies with his “residential user” identification in the new home. In other words, the discount will be taken elsewhere.
RASE: how to sign up to maintain electricity and gas subsidy
1. Registration can be done as follows:
Registration for the Registry of Access to Energy Subsidies (RASE) can be done through the website www.argentina.gob.ar/subsidios, which will be enabled this week, or in person at the offices of the National Administration of Social Security (ANSES) and electricity and gas distributors.
2. Users must provide an address. The data that is reported has DDJJ characteristics of income, assets and family group.
3. Whoever does not complete this procedure will lose the subsidies. This will immediately avoid losing the benefit, while the State evaluates the presentation.
4. All people must register, both for those who receive social benefits and the Universal Child Allowance, Progress, Promote Workamong others such as retirees and pensioners.
5. Those who do not receive the subsidy because they belong to the “high” group, must pay the full rate gradually until the end of the year.
Important: the criteria will be “continuous and mobile”; that is, the registry will remain open for users to declare later that their conditions have changed and they can require or be deprived of state aid.
Source: Ambito
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