FACUA considers the Government s short-term measures for the social tariff to be absolutely insufficient

FACUA-Consumers in Action considers the short-term measures approved this week by the Government on the social tariff to be absolutely insufficient. The measures include the decision not to increase the beneficiaries of discounted bills, to which only 1.2 million families have access. Measures that are far removed from the claims that the association has been transferring to the coalition Executive.

FACUA finds the Executive’s lack of sensitivity towards the serious economic problems that many families are going through regrettable. Families that will continue to be unable to access the social tariff given the disproportionately low income levels that are established for it. Unfairly and inconsistently, the association warns, all large families continue to be beneficiaries,