2.5m removed from power subsidy program

Meralco head of utility economics Lawrence Fernandez said the numbers may be high, as the company has about 7.6 million customers but “that only means that millions of lifeline customers before were not really marginalized.”

Qualified lifeline rate beneficiaries are 4Ps beneficiaries qualified households under Republic Act No. 11310 while non-4Ps are marginalized end-users living below the poverty threshold established by the Philippine Statistics Authority. Last week, DOE, ERC, and the DSWD issued a tripartite advisory to distribution utilities for the implementation of the lifeline rate.

The distribution utilities were also directed to also begin accepting and processing applications from its consumers seeking to avail of the lifeline rate program.

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