Time.news – In the first three years, the Income and Citizenship Pension were paid to 2 million households, for a total of 4.65 million people, and for a cost of almost 20 billion euros (to be exact 19.83 billion). In a long INPS report based on data from April 2019 to December 2021, i.e. a time span of 33 months, it is also clear that the average amount is 546 euros, very differentiated between Rdc (577 euros) and Pdc (281 EUR).
The INPS points out that among the people who benefited from the service in the 33 months examined there are newborns and centenarians, members of large families and people who live alone, those who benefited from it for just one month and those for over two years ; students, workers, pensioners, inactive, people who have died in the meantime.
A vast, articulated, heterogeneous whole, united by the absence or lack of family income.
From the data, it also emerges that 70% of those who received the benefit for the first time between April and June 2019 were still beneficiaries in the last semester object of study by the INPS.
The Report then underlines that “over 40% of the beneficiaries of Rdc / Pdc also receive the economic integration for the rent. That the measure has provided for an integration for the rent is an important fact, because the unavailability housing exposes you to a greater risk of poverty “.
As of December 2021, 44.7% of households are single-component and 67.3% are without minors. 17% of households with disabled people, while six out of ten households received more than 18 monthly payments. By identifying for the beneficiary nuclei the month of onset in the measure and analyzing the average amounts in that month and in December 2021 (initial amount vs current amount), it is clear that among the beneficiary nuclei in December 2021, those that have been present for the longest time in the measure have more unfavorable compared to the nuclei of recent entry.
Another element highlighted by the Report is that out of 100 beneficiaries of the Rdc, those “theoretically employable” are just under 60. Of these: 15 have never been employed, 25 have been in the past, and less than 20 are ready to work (they have a recent contribution position, in many cases NASpI and part-time). The evidence is of a weak attachment to the labor market on the part of citizenship income earners, “showing how the measure actually affects those at risk of social exclusion”.
As for the debated “southern question” on income: the INPS highlights that two out of three earners reside in the South or in the Islands (67% in terms of people, 62% of households, in December 2021). This is because, as can be seen from the XX Annual Report of INPS, the imbalance is also explained by indicators of local economic hardship (eg high unemployment rate, low level of education, lack of adequate services). “It is therefore the context that explains part of the differences in incidence. From this point of view, the measure appears to be a support not only for families, but also for some specific local contexts with particularly pronounced indicators of economic hardship”.