“Income inequality, as well as being increased, is pervasive and crosses all dimensions of gender, age, citizenship, territory. It also originates from the multiplication of contractual forms, today equal to 1,011: too many and often not representative ». The complaint comes from the INPS President, Pasquale Tridico, presenting the XXI Reports in Parliament. What is needed, therefore, “ideally, is a reorganization of the contractual discipline linked to the representativeness of the contracting parties, flanked by a minimum legal wage” which would produce a “containment of the observed inequalities, as well as facilitate the exercise of documentary supervision by Inps on compliance with the minimum contributions “.
On the other hand, Tridico still lists, «there are only 27 National Collective Labor Agreements that each cover over 100 thousand employees and concentrate 78% of private employees (10.2 million workers); those involving more than 10 thousand employees each are 95 and 96% of the employees of private non-agricultural companies (12.5 million workers) refer to them ”. “The average daily salary for full-time employees is equal to 98 euros gross – he continues -, but within this broad perimeter there are too marked variations”.
In this context, “although women represent 52% of total pensioners – adds Tridico -, they receive only 44% of pension income. The average monthly amount of income received by men is 1,884 euros gross, 37% higher than that of women, equal to 1,374 euros ”.
Single Check
Regarding the single allowance, at the end of June applications for about 9.1 million children were received by INPS, in addition to over 530 thousand children of RdC earning units who have received at least one single allowance supplement, compared to a potential audience of approximately 11 million entitled persons. “About 45% of the allowances paid – adds the report – go to households with Isee less than 15,000 euros, which therefore receive the maximum benefit, while more than 20% of children belong to families that have not presented ISEE and therefore receive the minimum amount. The average monthly amount per applicant nucleus in the month of May is from a minimum of 128 euros for one child to 1,581 euros for families with 6 or more children “.
Basic income
Also according to the report of the INPS president, in the first 36 months of application of the Citizenship Income (April 2019-April 2022) the measure reached 2.2 million households for 4.8 million people, for a disbursement total of almost 23 billion euros. The average monthly amount for the month of March 2022 is equal to 548 euros per family unit, very differentiated between the RdC (577 euros) and the PdC (248 euros).
Bonus 200 euro
The measures taken by the government to support incomes in the face of rising inflation “seem to go in the right direction of not triggering an inflationary spiral – continues Tridico -, intervening to support incomes, especially medium-low ones”. In this context, he underlines, “the commitment of the Institute is again expressed, in relation to the social bonuses and the allowance of 200 euros paid with the” Aid “Decree, acting as an intermediary to 31 million users including workers, pensioners, unemployed. The majority of the indemnities are paid ex officio by the Institute ». The figure also takes into account those advanced by companies and compensated with INPS.