We won't abandon anyone says INPS after 169,000 households lose RdC

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 29 - Pensions ans social security agency INPS said Saturday it would not abandon anyone after 169,000 households got an SMS saying they were no longer beneficiaries of the 'citizenship wage' basic income benefit or pension (RdC) because their families didn't have a minor, disabled person or an over 65.
    The government is phasing out the RdC, removing those deemed fit for work from its rolls.
    The INPS director of the Naples metropolitan area, the second largest in Italy in terms of users, Roberto Bafundi, reassured the 169,000 beneficiaries of the citizenship income who will no longer receive the subsidy from August because they do not have minors, the disabled or the over-65s in their household, telling ANSA "we are not abandoning anyone".
    "About half of these people are in a situation of social distress (e.g. drug addiction or housing distress, ed.) and will be able to turn to the social services and if included in a multidimensional recovery project they will still be able to get the subsidy," said Bafundi.
    "The others will have to go to the employment centres and sign the customised service pact to be put to work." (ANSA).