“We have been working for some time in the Ombudsman’s Office with all the issues that have to do with“gas increases specifically and public services in general,” indicated the Ombudsman of Chubut, Claudia Bard. And he highlighted that they have participated in the public hearings that were held at the national level and in that sense “comdiscussing it with both the governor and the Minister of Government and the State Attorney, “We combine the criteria to make a joint presentation, so that it has more weight.”
Bard stated that the Ombudsman’s Office made a collection of data and situations presented by neighbors, in which the increases in the month of April are reflected, against the same period last year and also against the immediately previous month.
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“In this way we were able to verify the increase, which we consider to be It is confiscatory and the way it affects people. There are people whose consumption has practically not increased compared to the previous month, we have seen cases of a bill that went from 900 pesos to 20,000when consumption has not yet reached the full season of our winter,” he detailed in dialogue with News 2.0.
IT WAS UP 500%, BUT IT WILL REACH 1,200% BY THE END OF THE YEAR
Furthermore, Bard highlighted that “everything became very confusing, because, ultimately, the national government announced the freezing of rates, but after applying a monstrous increase in rates. When we had the public hearings, we said that what the Secretary of Energy of the Nation was exposing implied that there would be a 1,200% increase in rates by the end of the year. And although that percentage has not yet been reached, because the continuity of the increase was stopped earlier, the increases that are applied still reach up to 500%.”
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The representative of the Ombudsman anticipated that the protection that Chubut will present It will be similar to that of Santa Cruz, in which it is proposed to roll back the current rates to the month of March, to begin updating them gradually and reasonably.
“The intention is that residential users can adapt to reality, It is not that we are against updating rates. What we propose is that it cannot be confiscatory for salaries, because these have not increased from one month to the next in those percentages, except for some items. So, clearly the increase ends up being a cut in income.”
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In addition, the defender clarified that although they also received presentations from businesses affected by the rate increase, these must be channeled through the Consumer Defense Office.
And in her role as vice president of the Association of Ombudsmen of the Nation, Bard anticipated that they will hold a meeting with the Consumer Defense Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, to explain the problems that the rate increase causes. In each region.
