The resolution which reaffirms the economic commitment, quantified at approximately 600 thousand euros, and identifies the requirements for accessing the benefit has been approved by the Regional Council. Citizens without jobs, those on redundancy pay and their families are involved. A self-certification via electronic health record will be sufficient
March 27, 2024 – Un concrete help for workers affected by company crises. This is confirmed by Emilia Romagna region, renewing then I commit which has continued since 2009: that of do not request payment of the health copay for outpatient services to workers in economic difficulty due to losing their jobs, nor their dependent family members.
Also confirmed free direct distribution of drugs in group Cincluded in the company handbooks, to indigent families identified by the Social Services.
Measurements put in black and white in the resolution approved by the Council in the last session, which quantifies in 600 thousand euros the cost of the measures for regional coffers, resulting from lost revenues. They will be in force from 1 April 2024 until the March 31, 2025: state legislation in fact provides that the exemptions remain active until March 31 of the year following activation.
“The public and universal healthcare that the Emilia-Romagna Region defends is also that which guarantees services from the healthcare system to those who find themselves in economic difficulty and cannot pay the ticket – explain the councilors for health policies, Raffaele Doniniat work, Vincenzo Collaand to Welfare, Igor Taruffi-. With this measure we support those who have lost their jobs or have been forced to close their business and their family. And from this year we are taking a step forward in bureaucratic simplification, because self-certification will be enough to obtain the exemption. Extra attention, alongside the townspeople and citizens of our region at a delicate moment in their lives.”
I recipient
To obtain the exemption you must be a citizen residing in a municipality in Emilia-Romagna, possess an ISEE certificate (Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator) equal to or less than 15mila euro and being deprived or suspended from work.
The applicant must have lost involuntarily employed work for an indefinite, non-intermittent period after 1 October 2008, or having ceased a self-employment exercised through ownership of a VAT number. Furthermore, he must never have re-employed, after losing his job, with another non-intermittent permanent employee job or with self-employment activities other than para-subordinate or occasional forms.
The exemption also includes workers suspended from an employment relationship for an indefinite period in ordinary, extraordinary or exceptional layoffs, in addition to dependent family members of those who meet the requirements.
Bureaucratic simplification
The Region has committed itself to streamlining bureaucratic procedures: in fact, it will be sufficient to present aself-certification via the electronic health record to communicate your condition suspended or jobless, without the need for further certification. The offices will then take charge of the necessary checks. Those who have difficulties with technology will still be able to present the self-certification in paper format to the local health authorities. Furthermore, the ISEE to be presented can be that ordinarywhich photographs incomes with a reference period of two years, but also that chainuseful if the economic hardship is recent, because it takes into consideration the income of the last 12 months.