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Electricity, gas and water bonus 2021 to counter the energy price increases: here’s how to get the discount on your bill

Increases in electricity and gas are the new cross of Italians. An Italian family will spend 631 euros in 2021 for the bill of the light. For the gas, will spend € 1,130, a variation of approximately + 15% compared to 2020 (corresponding to a increase of about 155 euros per year).

An alarming picture for the accounts of Italian families who, with the high bill, suffer the consequences of the tensions on the prices of raw materials, above all of gas. Tensions that “will persist for a not very short time, at least two quarters” warned Terna’s Director of Grid Development and Dispatching Strategies Francesco Del Pizzo

The good news is that between now and the end of the year, the Government has implemented a series of interventions aimed at limiting the increases envisaged in the bill. However, the buffer measures will disappear at the end of the year. However, tangible help to lower bills has existed for some years now, and from 2021 the citizen who is entitled to it does not have to do anything to get it. These are the “Social bonuses for economic hardship”, or a series of discounts directly on the bill for the families most in difficulty. These include: the light bonus, the gas bonus and the water bonus.

Energy and gas bonuses: who can get them?

To obtain the discounts directly on the bill, it is necessary to possess certain income requirements, to which is added under certain conditions, the electric bonus for situations of physical discomfort. All holders of a contract for the supply of electricity for domestic use, natural gas for domestic use and water at the home of residence and who have a family unit with an ISEE indicator of less than 8,265 euros or 20,000 euros in the presence of at least 4 dependent children. Citizens’ income holders have the right to access the electricity, gas and water bonus even if the ISEE threshold is higher than 8,265 euros.

What to do to get the bonus

From 2021 it is no longer necessary to submit the application to the Municipality or the CAF, however it is mandatory to present the ISEE. In this way the INPS through the ISEE recognizes if the family unit falls into one of the conditions of economic hardship just seen and automatically sends the family data to the Integrated Information System (SII).

This system will cross-reference the data received with those of electricity, gas and water supplies, allowing the bonus to be automatically paid into the bill. At the moment the Authority is defining the application methods for the automatic payment of bonuses, but there is no need to worry, because they will in any case be recognized for the whole of 2021.

Both users of a direct supply and those who use condominium systems can use the gas bonus. For indirect customers, the disbursement takes place through the communication by SGAte of the issuance of a domiciled bank transfer, which is disbursed in a single solution. The domiciled bank transfer is a payment system for which the holder of the bonus, following the acceptance of the bonus application, by going to a post office with the identity document and the tax code, withdraws the sum of money to which he is entitled.

Bonus amount

The amount of the bonus depends on the category of use associated with the gas supply, the climatic zone to which the supply point belongs and the number of members of the registry family (persons linked by ties of marriage, kinship, affinity, adoption, protection or from emotional ties, cohabitants and having the same residence). The amounts for the gas bonus range from € 30 to € 245 for families over 4 members in the F climate band. On the SGAte website it is possible to estimate the bonus obtainable by municipality, by type of gas use and family members. The water bonus allows you not to pay a minimum quantity of water per person per year, identified as 50 liters per day per person (18.25 cubic meters of water per year), corresponding to the satisfaction of essential needs.

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