(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 29 - There is a risk of a "social bomb"
exploding after the government axes tens of thousands of
recipients of the 'citizenship wage' basic income (RdC)
benefit, a civil service union said Saturday, highlighting the
lack of sufficient social workers to cope with the fallout of
the move.
The Civil Service CGIL union launches what it called a "stark
alarm" over the shortage of social workers in the management of
citizenship income suspensions.
"The government has decided to leave without income 160 thousand
families and to unload the effects of this choice on the staff,
in particular on the services already very much in difficulties,
of local authorities," said Funnione Pubblica CGIL.
"This is profoundly wrong. Especially in the South, there is the
risk literally of the explosion of a social bomb.
"The social workers that are missing, according to our
elaboration, are at least 15,000, out of the total 30,000 that
would be needed". (ANSA).
Risk of 'social bomb' due to lack of social workers -union
15,000 missing of 30,000 allegedly needed for RdC cut fallout