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Government Jenniffer González Defends Electricity Rate Increases to Pay Pensions for Aee Retirees

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The Secretary of Public Affairs of La Fortaleza, Hiram Torres Montalvo, today justified the proposal to increase electricity rates by 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour to cover the pension payments of the 12,500 retirees of the La Fortaleza Municipality.

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Following the decision of the Comptroller General of the Republic, the Ministry of Energy published on Tuesday in the Official Journal the decree that establishes the increase in electricity rates from July.After the completion of the complex process of defrosting tariffs, which accumulated an increase of 60% in 2024, this year the usual process of tariff review will begin with an average increase of 7.1% on average at the national level.The mod…

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The Secretary of Public Affairs of La Fortaleza, Hiram Torres Montalvo, today justified the proposal to increase electricity rates by 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour to cover the pension payments of the 12,500 retirees of the La Fortaleza Municipality.

On a Tuesday of quarrels and grievances, they lived in front of the headquarters of the Provincial Autarchical Institute of Social Work (Iapos) in Santa Fe. Affiliates and retirees gathered to denounce the growing crisis that the social work is going through, characterized by the difficulty of accessing hospitalizations and medical benefits, the unusual increments in the bonds and the worrying lack of official information about its functioning. …

According to experts, residential customers would be the most affected by the decision.

The Secretary of Public Affairs of La Fortaleza, Hiram Torres Montalvo, defended this Tuesday the proposal to increase by 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour the rate of electricity, with the objective of guaranteeing the payment of pensions of approximately 12,500 retirees from the Electric Energy Authority (EEA), whose retirement system is in bankruptcy. “We are talking about a system that needs between $25 and $30 million per month to stay operationa…

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UNO Radio Group broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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