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The electric social bonus is a discount that is applied to the electricity bill, as well as a European tool to address energy poverty. In Catalonia, more than 100,000 people benefit from it, but there are many who have the right but either do not know it or do not know how to request it.
For example, the historic agreement between the Generalitat and Endesa favored and relieved more than 30,000 people by forgiving their electricity debt. Of these, only a small part have requested the social electricity bonus, despite the fact that the vast majority are entitled to it.
It is true that in Catalonia families with difficulties paying the electricity bill should not suffer because companies cut off their supply because this is what the Parliament has approved in Law 24/2015, but many see with anguish how their debt grows with the supplying companies. A circumstance in which they would not find themselves if they had the electric social bonus.
It is for this reason that the Generalitat of Catalonia and, specifically, the Department of Social Rights (which has among its functions that of promoting and deploying the necessary policies to prevent, care for and promote social inclusion) is promoting an information campaign to give know the electric social bonus.
The campaign, with the slogan “With the social electric bonus, the electricity bill should not scare you”, has the objective of informing about this discount and alleviating the situation of those people who are entitled to it, but who are unaware or not They know how to request it.
This action is added to others promoted by the Generalitat, such as the aforementioned agreement to forgive the electricity debt of vulnerable families, the creation of an office to comprehensively address energy poverty or the Pilot Program for social intervention in public housing. Actions that demonstrate the Government’s commitment to the fight against social exclusion and, specifically, with people who suffer from situations of energy poverty.
