Citizenship income, the Meloni government ready to cut. Over 40 thousand Sardinian families with bated breath
The executive studies the cancellation of the benefit or radical changes. Salvini: "Stop it to give resources to pensions". Renzi: "If they remove it, I vote in favor"
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After the change of gear on Covid-19 , the Meloni government is preparing to adopt other measures in contrast with the previous executives.
On the table of the Council of Ministers there will also be the citizenship income , which the center-right alliance in the electoral campaign has always declared its intention, if not to abolish tout court, at least to radically change.
The Prime Minister himself defined it, in his inauguration speech, "a defeat for those who want to work" . Here, then, that the executive is looking for the square to put his hand to the subsidy, received in Italy by about 1.2 million households.
In Sardinia, 38,677 families benefit from the allowance - data as of September 2022, in addition to another 4,256 to whom the citizenship pension is paid.
A total of 42 thousand households and almost 80 thousand people - for an average monthly amount paid out of about 511 euros - who are waiting to know if and how the subsidy will be maintained.
At the moment it is certain that the Rdc will at least be modified by the new executive. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labor, entrusted by Giorgia Meloni to the Sardinian expert Marina Elvira Calderone , would already be dealing with it.
The debate is heated. Among the hypotheses that are circulating, there is that of revisiting income by introducing - as explained in these days by the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini - periodic "interruptions" to recover resources for pensions.
By suspending the citizenship income for six months to those who are able to work and have already benefited from it for 18 months, the State would in fact save 1 billion to finance a quota of 102.
The 5 Star Movement, of course, is firmly against it and also the Democratic Party supports the need to maintain a form of help for families in difficulty.
The center-right, however, is compact and found in the revision of the side in the Third Pole . "President Meloni has promised to remove the citizenship income. I will vote in favor, because I agree", announced the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi.
(Unioneonline / lf)
