Government at work on the DL Bollette, it is thought to expand the recipients of the social bonus

The technicians of the MEF and the Mase are at work to develop the DL bills, which could land on the CDM on Tuesday 25 February, it is a measure designed to help the weakest income bands to cushion the weight of the oscillations of the market.

At the end of last year, Arera had estimated that in the first quarter of 2025 the electric bill for the vulnerable ‘type’ type ‘served in greater protection would have increased by 18.2%. Now the government would be examining a series of interventions, one of the nodes to be dissolved would concern economic covers, estimates speak of a possible impact of up to 3 billion euros. Among the hypotheses under consideration there would be that of an expansion up to 15 thousand euros of ISEE of the catchment area of ​​the social bonus for economic discomfort.

Currently the support is granted for 12 months, on a single supply for each type of service (electric, gas and water), to the citizen or the core with Isee is not exceeding 9,530 euros for families with a maximum of 3 dependent children (20,000 euros those numerous with at least 4 dependent children). For 2025, the annual electric bonus includes 167.90 euros for 1-2 components to rise up to 240.90 euros for large families with over 4 components.

“We are evaluating a series of rules, it will eventually be up to the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti to verify their feasibility from an economic point of view. I can say that we will intervene to help the fragiles”, explains to La Stampa the Minister of the Environment and the Energy security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. Then he specifies: “We also aim to intervene on the ISEE, which should climb from the current 9,500 euros to 15 thousand. I am studying an operation on the gas charges and we are intervening on the company system with the anticipation of shares related to the issue of pollution.

It is not the first time that the executive has been intervening for support on the cost of bills. In the first maneuver of the center -right government, the one for 2022, a few months after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with the subsequent racing race of the energy price, a modification of the social bonus had been ordered by raising to 12 thousand The ISEE threshold (then set at 8,265 euros) with the recognition of 3.8 million electric bonuses and 2.4 million gas bonuses. Codacons says that the measures to the study of the government “do not convince consumers, who ask for further effort to help families and businesses”.

The consumer association identifies a “criticality in the duration of the measures which,” should remain in force only for six months “given that” fixed -term measures cannot represent an adequate solution to the problem “.