Stur pensions are chaos. Understanding something is becoming a difficult job and the reform that should take shape proceeds between hypotheses and backward steps. The latest news still concerns pensions for women: the government evaluates the idea of extending the four months advance for each child already in force thanks to the Dini reform of 1995 to all forms of pension for women. We try to clarify.
Retired women: is it still changing?
Today, mothers who started working after 1996 and who are therefore subject to the calculation of the pension entirely with the contributory method, enjoy a 4-month discount for each childup to a maximum of 12 months, on the age of access to the old-age pension.
The Government wants to ensure that this possibility is also extended to female workers who started working at the turn of 1996 and therefore fall under the mixed and salary systems. To do this, however, according to initial estimates, 700 million a year are needed. Not a few, considering that this is just one of the measures that the Executive wants to introduce.
The Government evaluates the idea of extending the four months advance for each child already in force to all pension schemes for women
Women’s option: what requirements?
In fact, the question of the tightening of the requirements to access the Women’s Option which reduced the number of women who could obtain the subsidy for 2023 to 2,900, against 21,000 in 2019 and 14,500 in 2020. The unions ask to go back to the old formulationor the exit at 58 for employees and at 59 for self-employed with 35 of contributions and recalculation of the check with the contribution system which involves a cut of up to a third.
Only for fired or redundant workers
The Government, on the other hand, explore the possibility of applying the old rules only to a group of workers in difficulty, such as those fired or resigned due to company agreements. Real exodus: jobless and pensionless.
For all the others, the new stakes would remain: age raised to 60 years which is lowered to 58-59 only in the presence of children and certain constraints (disabled, fired, caregivers). Stakes that allow the Meloni government to save.
Retired women, lack of money for coverage
At the moment, however, nothing has changed because the funds have not yet been found. As just as it is difficult to find them for all the measures under study which would be used to intervene on social security due to the increase in public spending due to inflation which led to a strong revaluation of cheques. The unions, however, are not convinced and are waiting to see if the government will go from declarations to deeds.
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