Only individuals benefited from the provisional gel on the government’s gas prices. Households living in the 18% accommodation of collective heating were excluded.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister Delegate to Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, had recognized a “hole in the racket”. The Government announced, Wednesday, February 16, an emergency assistance system for HLM condominium and tenant residents, so far apart from the temporary gel on the prices of the gas initiated by the executive.
Until then, only individuals could indeed benefit from the regulated tariffs concerned by the government’s measures. But more than 18% of housing from the country fall under collective heating, including part of the HLM park.
“Some households are not currently protected from rising gas market prices, especially when heated with high-power gas boilers and have indexed collective supply contracts on Gas market prices, “admitted the Prime Minister’s services in a statement released Wednesday.
” No approach “to be done for households
The executive therefore decided to extend the compensation device for gas suppliers so that “the heated gas and non-eligible housings at the regulated sales rate” can benefit from compensation to cover the rise. market price “. The modalities of this aid, which will be equivalent to the blocking of the regulated gas rates, according to the government, will be detailed “in the coming days”, according to the Government Communiqué. “Households will have no steps to take advantage of this compensation,” says Matignon, stating that this compensation will be “automatically passed on their loads”.
Regulated tariffs, put in place to mitigate the persistent increase in energy prices in Europe, consist of a gas price gel at their October 2021 until the end of June 2022, and an increase in Electricity price limited to 4%.
The CLCV, Consumer Defense Association, claimed help measures for households facing a flight of collective heating expenses, believing that they were “forgotten” government measures against the widespread outbreak of Energy price. Only people who have a direct contract with a power supplier benefit from this device. Social landlords are therefore excluded. Approximately 2.5 million tenants live in gate-heated collective dwellings.