He Government would have decided to postpone the removal of subsidies from electricity and gas rates, at least until Junedue to difficulties in crossing the information necessary for the implementation of the measure, official sources indicated.
The removal of subsidies was one of the announcements made by President Javier Milei in order to achieve fiscal surplusly was going to be implemented starting in April, but then it was decided to postpone it to the month of May and now it has suffered a new postponement.
According to official sources, the cause of the delay in implementation is due to delays in crossing the data of households that are registered in the Registry of Access to Energy Subsidies (RASE) with the data managed by Indec. regarding the socioeconomic situation of the users
Electricity and gas rates come from a long period of freezing and at this time not all homes pay the same, with billing being differentiated according to the income level of the family group.
The data managed by the Energy portfolio reveal an expenditure in subsidies of around 150,000 million dollars over the last 20 years, with consumption three times higher than the average consumption in the region.
Meanwhile, from the ministry headed by Luis Caputo, they maintain that energy subsidies represented 1.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2023, an expense four times higher than that of the Universal Child Allowance (AUH). , which added 0.4% of GDP in the same period.
