PM: gov't to subsidise electricity bills for about 1 million citizens

The Georgian government will subsidise electricity bill costs for about one million socially underprivileged citizens, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.

Designed to aid the economically "most underprivileged" parts of the public, the programme will run throughout the year 2022, the head of the government said.

The initiative is a continuation of the social relief package drawn up and maintained by the government between the start of the pandemic in the early 2020 and the end of 2021.

Garibashvili said his government had decided to continue the programme of the subsidies, targeting the individuals at or below the 150,000 social score threshold used to assess their material conditions.