Although the removal of subsidies was postponed, significant increases are coming for all users. Residential increases exceed 500% and businesses and industries with greater increases, above 1,000%.
The next invoices natural gas They will begin to arrive this month with strong increases compared to what customers paid the previous year, increases that could be greater in the winter period.
It is worth remembering that the adjustment in the first months of the current government of the president Milei brought the rates of this public service to levels close to those of 2019, after the increases during the management of Mauricio Macri, for high-income households. But in the case of low- and middle-income users, they still maintain a large part of the subsidized cost although the Government has already announced the removal of these subsidies as soon as possible. In reality, the objective of postponing the increases until further notice scheduled for May was to support the slowdown in inflation and not burden the middle class with more expenses. This was supported by the fiscal surplus achieved during the first quarters.
It is worth noting that the Ministry of Energy postponed the implementation of a new, more restrictive subsidy scheme, which was first announced for April, then May, and was recently reported to be applied in June and now has no precise date.
Expenditure on rates is one of the deficit issues that generate and have generated the greatest difficulty in recent years.
