Promise kept - Di Maio on basic income

(ANSA) - Rome, March 6 - Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday that the government and his 5-Star Movement (M5S) had kept its promise after the launch of the new 'citizenship wage' basic income.
    "Today we are keeping a promise," M5S leader Di Maio told RTL radio.
    "The State is finally taking care of the invisible ones, the people who have been on the outskirts of the country and of the political debate.
    "As of today, five million people can potentially have access to this measure.
    "It's a revolution. I've worked so much on it". Di Maio added that he plans to take action to resolve the problem of the so-called 'navigators' who work at job centres to help people claiming the benefit get back into work. "I want to hire 6,000 people at the central level and send them to all of the regions over the next few months to cover the shortcomings at the job centres while the regions hold recruitment procedures," Di Maio said.