translated from Spanish: Electricity companies and postponement of unpaid bills: “We don’t think we can continue to put up with simply deferring this problem”

The executive director of the Electricity Companies, Rodrigo Castillo, referred to the Basic Services Law, which allows nearly 800,000 customers to accumulate their delinquent debts in electricity accounts, maintaining that at present “it is unsustainable.” In a conversation with Radio Cooperativa, Castillo said that “perhaps the most serious aspect is that people usually had debts of one or two months; However, today we find people who already have debts of six months or a year, and therefore, the accumulated amount is very, very high.” Simply postponing the deadline was becoming something that was going to be unsustainable for the families themselves”, so the executive proposes that, from now on, we work in favor of clients who “we really know that they can not pay, and that probably when it is appropriate to do so, if they have not been able to pay a bill, they will hardly be able to pay a bill and a quarter, or an account and a half,” he warned. Along these lines, the Senate’s Economics Committee and the government urged the convening of a tripartite table made up of industry, the State and consumer representatives, which was appreciated by the executive.” We don’t think we can keep putting up with just postponing this problem, because there’s going to come a point — which we think has already come — where it will be very difficult to solve,” he said. Finally, Castillo said that “these debts are reppated without any interest, therefore, the mere financial cost of not being able to collect, not being able to cut the supply, and continue to assume that debt, has already generated a very significant cost,” he explained, although anyway he stated that “we are not closed to any possibility; what we do want, we want this tripartite table to be constituted hopefully as soon as possible.”



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