The Federation of Associations of Single Mothers (FAMS) has warned that 81% of single-parent families do not request the social bonus for discounts on the electricity bill due to lack of information, so the Isadora Duncan Foundation of Single-parent Families has Launched an outreach campaign.

As FAMS has stated in a statement, the social bonus for single-parent families in vulnerable situations is a “clear example” of the “confusion” generated by some aid due to the terms used.

“Concepts such as the family unit, residence or nucleus of coexistence contribute to entangle the drafting of the legislation even more and make it extremely difficult for the interested parties to understand it, including the managers”, he pointed out.

In this sense, it has warned that 81% of these families do not currently have this bonus “largely due to the lack of clarifying information on access” to this resource.

“This occurs despite the relative ease offered by the rental access route, which only requires completing the application and marking the ‘Special Circumstances’ option, the DNI or NIE of the people who make up the cohabitation unit, the Book de Familia and the certificate of registration less than 90 days old”, he explained.

Thus, it has specified that these families “do not know that they can access the social bonus as single-parent families -without the card- without further consideration, neither of home, nor dependency, nor risk of social exclusion, to cite some assumptions included until the date in the different norms that have regulated it”.

In this context, the Isadora Duncan Foundation will launch a campaign on social networks next Wednesday with the label

This action, which will have the support of other entities of the Federation of Single Mothers, is framed within the Family Financial Education and Energy Poverty program of the foundation, financed by the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 charged to the IRPF allocation for other purposes of social interest.

The social bonus or thermal social bonus is an aid that the Government launched in October 2018 to address energy poverty and that is intended to protect the most vulnerable consumers. Currently, anyone who proves to be a vulnerable consumer, justifying a certain level of income, recipients of the minimum vital income (IMV) and large families, can benefit from it, in this case, without any criteria of income discrimination.

The vulnerable obtain, thanks to this voucher, a 25% discount on the electricity bill, but until December 31, 2023 the reduction is 65%. In the case of vulnerable consumers considered severe, the discount is 40% and 80% until the end of this year. Large families and single parents are considered vulnerable consumers.