Every consumer unit used for residential purposes.
Low-Income Social Tariff
Art. 8 Consumer units will be classified under the Low-Income Residential Sub-class, as long as they are used by:
I – families registered with the Federal Government’s Single Registry for Social Programmes (Cadastro Único), with monthly family income per capita lower or equal to half a national minimum wage; or
II – Elderly people aged 65 (sixty-five) or above or people with disabilities, which receive the Continuous Provision Benefit (BPC), under the terms of articles 20 and 21 of Legislation 8.742 from December 7th 1993; or (Text provided by Aneel REN 717 from May 10th 2016)
III – families registered in the Cadastro Único with monthly income of up to 3 (three) times the minimum wage, who have a person with illness of disability whose treatment, medical or therapeutic procedure requires the continued use of devices, equipment or instruments that, for its operation, require electricity consumption. (Text provided by Aneel REN 472, from January 24th 2012)
Single paragraph: the classification the caption refers to does not depend on the consumer unit being in the name of the people to which causes I, II and III refer. (Included by Aneel REN 717 from May 10th 2016)
Art. 9 Each family will be entitled to the Electric Energy Social Tariff (TSEE) at only one consumer unit.
§1 Each family, when ending the use of the consumer unit, must inform the distributor that it will undertake the necessary changes with further communication to Aneel by electronic means, according to Aneel’s specific instructions.
§2 The constant address of the Cadastro Único or of the BPC beneficiary registration must be located within the distributor’s concession or permission area, except in the situations of supply to precarious title to which art. 53 refers. (Text provided by Aneel REN 717 from May 10th 2016)