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Editorial Board
13 December 2020 16:01
Meri Rovina, a 74-year-old woman from San Giuliano Terme in the province of Pisa, could not understand what had happened when on the phone with her bank to obtain information about the withdrawal of the monthly check, the employee said the following sentence: ” I will explain why you did not receive the pension: she is dead. “According to the INPS, the lady is dead. And now Meri has to prove that she is alive and well, presenting a series of documents and certificates to the social security institution so that it is recognized as owed. Ay de no do it: in this case the elderly woman will not receive the pension until at least the month of February.
The woman left without a pension that now she has to prove that she is alive
“A grotesque situation: not even self-certification is enough, to appear in person with an identity document and tax code – the lady tells the newspaper The nation -. No, you need a certificate of existence in life for which I had to pay the stamp duty of 16 euros, all to prove that I am still alive. “It is not clear how such a thing could have happened. At age 74, he would have died on October 20, which is why his pension was not paid in December.
But neither she nor her relatives died during this time. Is this perhaps a case of homonymy? “But the tax code must serve precisely to avoid this,” says the woman, who will now have to submit to the institution a series of practices to prove that she is alive and re-credit her pension.
“Should the citizen be the one to remedy an error in the institution, especially spending money? Not only that, is it common for an elderly person to know how to disentangle himself between apps and online dating? Ramos …”.
