The news of the Social Bonus starting from 2021
From 1 January 2021 (as required by the decree law 26 October 2019 n. 124, converted with amendments by law 19 December 2019, n. 157), to obtain the social bonus for economic hardship it will be sufficient to present each year the Single Substitute Declaration (DSU to be presented to the Municipality, CAF, site INPS, etc.), in order to certify the income situation (ISEE).
The Single Substitute Declaration presented to access the subsidized social bonuses (school canteen, maternity allowance, baby bonus, etc.), will also allow automatic access to the social bonus for economic hardship, if the conditions exist.
How to get the Power Social Bonus: the requirements
To access the bonus for economic hardship, one of the members of the ISEE household must be the holder of an electricity supply contract with a tariff for domestic use; moreover it must belong to one of these categories:
- household with an ISEE indicator not exceeding 9,530 euros (for 2023 the ISEE threshold value was raised to 15,000 euros);
- family unit with at least 4 dependent children (large family) and ISEE indicator not exceeding 20,000 euros (for 2023 the ISEE threshold value was raised to 30,000 euros);
- family nucleus holder of Citizenship Income or Citizenship Pension.
In the presence of the income requirements, INPS sends the data of the family unit to the Integrated Information System (SII *).
The SII has a central role, as it acquires information from INPS, identifies the supplies to be facilitated and communicates them to sellers and distributors of electricity and gas, indicating the period of validity of the concession.
To maintain the continuity of the benefit, it is necessary to submit the Single Substitute Declaration at least one month before the expiry of the previous bonus (the facilitation start date runs from the first day of the second month following that of the presentation of the DSU or the first day of the month in which the SII checks and sends notifications to sellers and distributors).
Each family unit is entitled, for the relevant year, to only one bonus per type (electricity, gas, water).
If a person living in the house has serious health conditions who meets the requirements for the bonus for physical discomfort, the family can also request this facility.
*Integrated Information System (SII) managed by the Single Buyer company. The SII is a computer database that contains information useful for identifying power and gas supplies.