++ INPS: 6.6. mn pensioners' income below 1000 euros ++

(ANSA) - Rome, July 8 - More than 6.6 million Italian pensioners (some 42.5% of the total) have pension incomes of less than 1,000 euros a month, the social security agency INPS said Wednesday. In its annual report INPS disclosed that this group of people's incomes represented only 18.9% of overall expenditure in 2014, receiving little more than 50 billion.