Basic income is certain to expire in mid-summer 2023. But it is a dull certainty, because slogans aside, there are no decrees and no protocols. “Workable” will receive seven months’ income in the current year (was 18 months previously, possibly renewable). Everyone between the ages of 18-29 who has not completed compulsory education should be required to attend training courses. For recipients aged 18 to 59, the requirement to attend a six-month training or professional retraining course would be introduced from January 1, otherwise the subsidy would be forfeited. The possibility of rejecting even a single “fair” job offer would have been eliminated. As you may have noticed, many verbs are conditional.
In reality, things are complicated: To begin with, the requirement to attend a 6-month training or vocational retraining course under penalty of Rdc deprivation makes no sense without the Department of Labor’s training plan and the methods used. from the courses. The plan is not there. Coming next month (maybe). It should be the Regions that oversee the obligation to attend these training courses and quickly forward lists of non-compliant topics to Anpal. In turn, Anpal will have to report defaulting subjects to the INPS for cancellation of the subsidy. In Anpal, as of today, February 14, there are obviously no reports.
Let’s move on: having to “graduate” to continue receiving financial aid (it’s actually a matter of a training course, at least a three-year qualification) doesn’t mean things are going much better. In fact, no protocol was foreseen by the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Labor. It’s not just a few hundred people who are interested in these details: The audience is estimated to be 140,000 youths under the age of 30 who receive the subsidy and have the most secondary school diplomas.
The latest budget law provides that basic income is withheld if one of the members of the receiving family nucleus does not accept the first job offer presented to him (previously this was the second reasonable offer or the first offer after the renewal of the employment contract). 18 months). The specifics of the proposal to be accepted “by force” are still unclear: precise geographical criteria, the adequacy of the salary or the duration of the contract will be determined by a decree. But as authoritative observers have pointed out in recent days, the government is at an important crossroads at this point: adding the expected innovations for January, then February to the Labor decree, then who knows (but the urgency for a decree and the necessity that isn’t here). Or consider a temporary bill whose process is much more bumpy and lengthy.
In short, the Meloni government has not even begun to act from word to mouth to go beyond the basic income and replace it with a new instrument, apart from the “line” announced in the budget law that was enacted about fifty days ago. The manager had given ample assurances that he would support employables by accompanying them through a training course towards a job. It didn’t happen.
According to the estimates of the parliamentary budget office, the tightening decided by the Meloni government could leave 38.5% of households (and 23% of people) receiving this assistance today without benefits. About 400 thousand families, more than half a million people. Those who grope in the dark today, no fault of their own.
Source: Today IT
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