THE discounts on social bonuseson the electricity bill that vulnerable households and large families can access, will remain at 42.5% throughout 2026 on the bill of vulnerable households and 57.5% for vulnerable households and will not be reduced again as planned.
THE freezing of discounts The social bonus is one of the measures that appear in the royal decree-law with which the government extended the so-called “social shield” until 2026 and which also includes the increase in pensionsalone ban on evictions to vulnerable households when there is no alternative housing.
Concerning the social bonus, the Government renounces taking the step planned for 2026, when the reduction would drop again for the last time, from the maximum of 65% and 80% for vulnerable and very vulnerable households that it had approved in 2022 as aid to cope with the surge in energy prices due to the crisis caused by Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Since then, discounts on social bonuses have followed a progressive descending pathwhich was due to end in 2026, leading to a reduction in 35% for vulnerable households and 50% for severely vulnerable householdsthat this Tuesday was stopped with the extension of the current discount, 42.5% for some and 57.5% for others.
Still on energy matters, the Government has extended until December 31, 2026 the ban on cutting supplies of energy and water in vulnerable households due to non-payment.
The Government thus responds to the demands of social groups such as Alliance against energy povertybut not completely. This group, interlocutor of several ministries on these questions, called for the extension of supply reductions, the ban on evictions and reductions in the social premium but also asserts that these decisions acquire a “structural”, permanent characterso that its extension does not have to be approved periodically by a decree like the one approved this Tuesday by the Council of Ministers and it depends on who governs at a given moment.
Sources from the Ministry of Ecological Transition recall that these measures are in addition to others which will also be in force throughout next year: tax incentives such as a 15% reduction in income tax for the purchase of housing. electric vehicle or install a charging station or carry out work in favor of efficiency energy.
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