44.5 billion euros is the figure relating to the interventions implemented by INPS in the period of the Covid emergency, reaching over 15 million beneficiaries and about 20 million individuals. About half of the figure, equal to 23.8 billion, was used for indemnity payments for the benefit of 6 million and 700 thousand employees as wage supplements. This is what emerges from the 20th Annual Report on the activities of the institute in 2020.
Among other interventions, 1 million and 800 thousand households (about 3.7 million individuals) benefited from the Citizenship Income or the Citizenship Pension, which, during the pandemic, constituted a powerful tool to support income towards of the most needy sections of the population and, at the same time, has contributed to reducing the risk of social tensions. While 850 thousand families that have benefited from the baby-sitting bonus.