MEI electricity bill may have a discount of 10% to 65%

Good news for individual microentrepreneurs (MEI) is taking shape in the Chamber of Deputies. The parliamentarians analyze the Bill 1377/22, being able to configure the MEI electricity bill one of the benefits of the Social Electricity Tariff (TSEE), which varies from 10% to 65%, depending on consumption. Check out the full content and learn more about the bill.

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What is the Social Electricity Tariff?

The Federal Government offers low-income families registered in the Cadastro Único (Cadúnico) or members who are beneficiaries Benefit of Continued Provision (BPC) a discount on your electricity bills, known as the Social Energy Tariff Electric.

The tariff reduction is stipulated according to the energy consumption of each month of these families, which varies from 10% to 65%, with a consumption limit of 220 kWh. The table below indicates the monthly consumption and the discount percentage, respectively:

• A consumption of up to 30 KWh per month: 65%;
• A consumption ranging from 31 KWh to 100 KWh per month: 40%;
• A consumption ranging from 101 KWh to 220 KWh per month: 10%.

Obs.: However, above 220 KWh per month there will be no discount offered for any category.

Who is entitled to this TSEE tariff?

This reduced fare is allowed for some specific categories, following some pre-defined and current rules. So, keep reading and see below who is entitled to this condition:

• Families that are enrolled in the CadÚnico and have a monthly family income equal to or less than R$606 (half of a current minimum wage);
• Be elderly aged 65 years or older or have a disability and receive the BPC;
• Families enrolled in CadÚnico with a monthly income of R$ 3,636 (three minimum wages), who have a resident who is patient with an illness or any disability whose treatment requires the continuous use of devices that consume energy electric.

Bill 1377/22 to include MEI

The author, Deputy Josivaldo JP (PSD-MA), justified this action based on the belief that the two years of the pandemic greatly affected micro-entrepreneurs and this measure may come to be a remedy for they. The proposal, which is being processed in a conclusive manner, will still be analyzed by the following commissions:

• Economic Development, Industry, Commerce and Services;
• Constitution and Justice and Citizenship;
• Mines and Energy;
• Finance and Taxation.

If it passes, the benefit granted to the people listed in the conditions above can also be directed to individual micro-entrepreneurs.