The government is set to replace the
'citizenship wage' minimum-income benefit with a new
anti-poverty measure, according to the draft of a bill that ANSA
has seen.
Premier's Giorgia Meloni's government had already said it would
no longer be possible for people considered fit for work to
claim the citizenship wage by the end of the year, saying it is
too susceptible to fraud and takes away the incentive for
beneficiaries to find a job.
People who are not fit for work will be able to claim a new
benefit called MIA (Misura di Inclusione Sociale, Social
Inclusion Measure), the draft bill said.
The new benefit will be split into a system for households with
people over-60, minors or the disabled and another for families
that do not have members in any of those groups.
The 'citizenship wage' was brought in under the first
government of ex-premier and 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader
Giuseppe Conte in January 2019.
The M5S has said its abolition will spark a "social bomb" of
countless newly impoverished people who have nowhere else to
turn to support themselves.
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