The risk of riots due to the suspension of income for citizenship in Sicily

The instituting law of Basic income provides a one-month break after 18 months of receipt of checks to review the application and benefit recipient requirements. And the September 30th the right to the benefit expires for those who have received it for 18 months. In Sicily since the start of the program, 560 thousand citizens have benefited from the measure: the region is second in Italy in terms of the number of beneficiaries after Campania, which exceeds 600 thousand beneficiaries. But the regional labor councilor Antonio Scavone wrote to the minister Nunzia catalfo to announce that the stop could cause riots on the island.

The risk of riots due to the suspension of income for citizenship in Sicily

Currently, as he said in recent days Republic in the edition of PalermoIn Sicily there are around 120,000 suitable for work, the rest are exempt for health or family reasons. More than half of those eligible are over 35 years of age and have little education, so much so that any return to work is very difficult: 75,000 have signed the labor pact to date, only 55 have been summoned by municipalities for social work. According to the data collected by the Councilor for Labor Antonio Scavone Through the Employment Centers, in the region since the beginning of the citizen income, 19,000 have obtained a fixed-term contract; however, to date it is not known how many of these contracts are actually active. This is what Antonio Fraschilla wrote:

“Let’s face it, we run the risk of a riot in our cities if there are no guarantees in the restoration of the check – says councilor Scavone – I asked the minister to send a circular to the offices to speed up the procedures given that the emergency of the Covid It hinders “access to our facilities and also to the Cafes that must comply with anti-Covid regulations.”

Sicily, after Campania, is the region that has the highest number of people involved in the income of citizenship. And a month-long shutdown, with no certainty about the resumption of the subsidy, is already creating problems. “Many turn to us to ask us for speed in deleting files – says Marco Cannata from Caf Asia – but we are not sure about the processing times of the files by the INPS either. In addition, we are also concerned about the number of people who will have to go to the Caf network in the midst of a pandemic and with risks for everyone, even for us operators.

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