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The government wants to leave its mark on pensions and, after having reneged on Quota 100 in every way, is looking for a substitute not far from reforming the Northern League. Even at the cost of displeasing Brussels.
The early retirement in an experimental version launched by the first Conte government, aged 62 and with 38 contributions, is at the last turning point. At the end of 2021 it will expire and without another measure there is a risk that in exactly one year, from one day to the next, an intolerable ladder will be created. For retirees, forced to undertake a five-year increase in the requirements for retirement. But also for the government.
The news is that the executive headed by Giuseppe Conte, who until yesterday struggled with very light reform drafts, which would only have saved some categories of workers so precocious and burdensome from the sudden increase in the retirement age, is positioning himself in more courageous .
Yesterday quota 102 reappeared. That is flexibility for everyone with a minimum of personal data, 64 years instead of the 67 that will start in a year. Then 38 contributions. The new regime, Il Sole24ore wrote yesterday, would provide more relief from heavy work (62 years). The only sanction is the recalculation of the contribution limited to years in advance. Therefore, more favorable requirements also with respect to the Women’s Option, which the Budget Law has expanded, together with the social Ape.
Indiscretions of political sources. It is a sign that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is playing in medium-long times and in any case to last beyond the management of the Covid emergency. But it is also a complex challenge. The State General Accounting Office has already put the government in arrears in the ninth safeguard of the exodus. Quote 102 could easily be vetoed by the European Union. Spending on social security is not among those that, in the eyes of Brussels, justify exceptions to the Stability Pact which, in all probability, will re-enter into force in 2022. For the moment, the savings represented by a return to the legislation of Fee 100 y Any intervention to lighten the “ladder” will be funded and justified.
In addition to the inevitable coverage problems, there is also one related to the type of policy. In the country recommendations of the European Commission, Italy is suspended for not having “made progress in reducing the share of old-age pensions in public spending to create space for other social spending and encourage growth.”
Therefore, it is difficult for the Commission and the Council of the EU to accept a measure that concentrates public spending precisely on social security. The only way to make a pension reform worker-friendly is to link the advance to the inevitable business crises caused by the pandemic. The advance of the pension pleases the unions, which will soon resume discussions with Minister Nunzia Catalfo (in the photo) on the reform. But also to companies that see the requirements for a lighter retirement as an alternative way out to other buffers.
