TOwill revive in December, in a single solution, and will be intended for a restricted but significant audience: working mothers with at least two dependent children and an annual income of less than 40,000 euros. The Mamme Bonus 2025480 euros net, not taxed, has also been confirmed for this year. An important gesture, but more than anything else symbolic, since, as often happens, a more complex reality is hidden behind the figure, made of exclusions, structural limits and political questions.
2025 working moms bonuses: question, how to request it
The measure, introduced in 2024 and renewed for 2025, It is aimed at employee, autonomous and freelance mothers. An opening that seems to want to embrace the plurality of the forms of female work, but which stops in front of significant borders. Remain excludedin fact, some bands: domestic workersoften invisible in the welfare system, and the autonomous in the flat ratea large and growing category, which includes many precarious professionals. A choice that has raised criticism from unions, feminist associations and work observers, who denounce a partial and not very inclusive vision of female work.
How the contribution to employees will be disbursed
The 2025 Mamme Bonus will be disbursed according to differentiated methods based on the type of work. For employees employeesthe amount of 480 euros net, will be credited directly into the paycheck in December, without the need to apply. Will be the employer, in coordination with theINPSto manage the delivery, simplifying access for those who are already inserted in a regular contribution circuit.
The Mamme Bonus 2025 recognizes the role of mothers in work and care, but remains a limited measure (Getty)
What self -employed workers have to do
For self -employed workers and freelancerson the other hand, the path will be more articulated: it will be necessary submit an online application through the INPS portalauthenticating himself with Spid, Cie or CNS. Alternatively, you can resort to the assistance of a patronage, which will be able to submit the request on behalf of the beneficiary. Once the application is accepted, The contribution will be paid by bank transfer to the indicated current account. This differentiation raises questions about the equity of access. For those with lower digital skills, in fact, the risk of exclusion is concrete.
A one -off bonus
The mothers bonus is not a monthly check, nor a continuous contribution, it is a one -off contribution. Also, it cannot be combined, That is, every beneficiary receives only one share, regardless of the number of childrenchoice that, if on the one hand avoids distortions, on the other ignores the different intensity of the family load. Despite the limits, however, for many mothers, those 480 euros represent concrete help, In an economic context marked by increases, inflation and difficulties in reconciling work and family.
Among the lowest women’s employment rate in Europe
The criticisms of the mothers bonus look above all the context in which it is proposed. Unfortunately in Italy, the female employment rate remains among the lowest in Europe and, Maternity is still one of the main exclusion factors from work. The post-parto voluntary resignation, the discrimination during the intake phase, the lack of flexibility and adequate public services, are widespread phenomena. And that’s why one of the most repeated criticisms towards the measure is that the bonus appears as a surface measure.
2025 working moms bonus: a gesture, not a structural policy
A measure that is part of a panorama of fragmented policies, where Support for female parenting remains more an episodic gesturelinked to emergency or symbolic logic. It is not structural, nor intervenes on the causessuch as wage disparity or difficulties in accessing welfare for precarious or unemployed mothers. Does not face the node of the lack of services for childhoodnor that of the rigidity of working hours. It is a partial response, which risks leaving the most fragile women out, those who live on the margins of the labor market or in conditions of economic vulnerability.
Moms bonuses, towards a wider vision
Because support for maternity was a true support, they say unions and work observers, a paradigm change would be needed: stable investments in educational and care services, Incentives for female employmenttax reforms that recognize the value of the care work, and an overall review of the welfare system. Only in this way, in fact, is it possible to build a country in which being mothers does not mean having to choose between work and family and in which, The recognition is not limited to an economic contribution, but translates into rights, opportunities and dignity.