The Executive Branch disbursed 5.3 million dollars and Ancap about 3.2 million dollars for the most vulnerable households.
the balance of ancap presented yesterday explained that the public company began to take charge of the subsidy from the year 2023. Before, from June to December of last year, it was the government that provided the aid, even paying $8.3 million between the two.
Through General Revenue, the Ministry of Economy and Finance contributed $5.3 million for the subsidy. Ancap, for its part, allocated since the beginning of this year $3.2 million for the subsidy of the most vulnerable households in Uruguay. The benefit has been growing until reaching 264,000 homes.
As explained from Ancap, from June to December of last year, they delivered 524,000 carafes with subsidy, while, so far in 2023, they delivered 271,000 bottles with a 50% discount. The one with the highest cost for the subsidy was March with a total amount of 1,282,000 dollars. The departments with the highest demand for subsidized bottles are Montevideo with 34%, Canelones with 17% and Salto with 10%, while the remaining departments represent between 1 and 5%.
However, the president of Ancap, Alejandro Stipanicic, said he hopes the government can phase out the subsidy because it costs the company millions of dollars a year. “In 2022 the total subsidy for supergas was 87 million dollars, in front of the 100 million dollars of the previous year. We are betting that this targeted subsidy will gradually allow the Executive Branch to adjust the value of supergas at a higher price,” Stipanicic remarked.
The supergas conflict and Ancap’s position
A few weeks ago, the Uruguayan Federation of Commerce and Services Employees (Fuecys) has been demanding the dismissal of workers in two of the supergas bottling plants granted by Ancap. Riogas fired 26 workers while Acodike fired 27 with the excuse that they had changed the working conditions that forced companies to reduce their staff.
Against this, stipanicic He referred to this situation and established that it seems “unfair” to blame the entity for the regulatory conditions that, according to him, did not change. From Ancap they remarked that no condition was put, nor restriction, nor any economic term that would change the equation of Riogas and Acodike so that they made that decision. On the other hand, he stressed that in the bidding the rental cost was free and that the companies that appeared offered for two floors and two different rental terms.
Source: Ambito
