less money for those who can work

the Basic income, at least as we know it, is close to the term. In an attempt to save him at least in part, the Cinquestelle are now pondering the possibility of dividing the grant. The hypothesis is outlined of continuing to allocate the income of the current citizens exclusively to beneficiaries who are not in a position to work and, instead, give a tailor-made subsidy to those who can be activated, with lower amounts and under another name.

But the action proposals to correct the measure that are currently on the government table are different and it is not yet clear which path the new citizen income will take. The truth, however, is that the aid will change. For the workhorse of the pentastelatos, 10 billion euros have already been spent. And if on the one hand it turned out to be an anti-poverty bonus during the emergency that the country is going through due to the pandemic, on the other hand the failure of the measure on the labor front was sensational.

As of October 31, the beneficiaries with an active employment relationship were 192,851, while those required to sign a labor agreement were almost 1.4 million as of the same date. How does it come out? The idea is to grant a separate subsidy in the future to applicants who are considered fit to work: in this case the amounts that can be activated would be lower than those collected today with the income of the citizens.

On the other hand, the mechanism under study provides as an incentive that when a beneficiary begins to work, they continue to receive for a specified period around half of the subsidy to which they were previously entitled.

Stop browsing

Finally, the stop for sailors is discounted: those who were to be the saviors of the Italian world of work, just under three thousand tutors, most of whom were unemployed when they applied to be sailors, have the contract expiring at the end of April but in the Budget Law without money to renew their employment relationship. We also thought about the possibility of weakening Domenico Parisi’s Anpal and starting a public-private alliance to support employment centers with a number of useful topics to make a change, from private employment agencies to companies. , from training centers to labor consultants.

Two headed animal

The grillini was from the beginning a two-headed animal, but taking advantage of a single tool to achieve two purposes, fight poverty and combat unemployment, was counterproductive. For the president of the INPS Pasquale Tridico, the income of the citizens in this phase helped to guarantee the cohesion of the country, showing itself as a useful anti-Covid parachute. Di Maio is pushing to clearly separate tools to combat poverty from income support in the absence of employment.

The number of wage earners from the closure onwards began to grow at a much faster rate than that registered before the start of the pandemic, reaching more than 1.3 million households in September, to the point that now it is likely that the subsidy costs a lot. more than expected next year if employable beneficiaries are not employed. For those who are not eligible to work, the citizenship income will continue to be paid according to current methods, although a differentiation of the amounts at the regional level is not excluded, because those who live in the North must deal with a higher cost of living . high.

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