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."
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