Deputy Premier and Labour and
Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday that there were no
doubts that the government's plan for a pension overhaul to
effectively bring down the retirement age would go ahead.
The 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader was responding after Tito
Boeri, the president of pensions and social-security agency
INPS, suggested the figures for the financial coverage of the
reform do not add up.
The government wants to make it possible for people to retire
when their age plus their number of years of contributions add
up to 100.
Under this system, the earlier a person could start claiming
a State pension would be 62.
"I'd avoid pointless controversy," said Di Maio.
"The level 100 (reform) will happen".
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Boeri said INPS had
done many simulations related to the pension reform at the
government's request.
"They all necessarily imply a major increase in spending in
the first few years," he said.
"The idea that a flat, constant allocation of seven billion
euros a year (can cover the reform) is not supported in the
slightest way".
Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said
Boeri's criticism of the government's policies was politically
motivated and suggested the INPS chief might run in the
leadership primaries of the opposition centre-left Democratic
Party (PD).
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