Extension of discounts on bills and gasoline, revaluation of pensions and cutting of the higher-than-expected wedge. But also resources for drought, aid for the former Ilva, protection for the most vulnerable consumers. The one approved by the Government with the new bis aid decree and presented at a press conference by Prime Minister Mario Draghi is a maxi-provision that puts down a total of 17 billion in aid to families and businesses.

"A provision of extraordinary proportions", underlines Draghi, thus returning to speak after the weeks that led to the end of his mandate and recalling that these resources are added to the 35 billion put on the plate this year to mitigate the effects of the increases. .

Draghi made no secret of the series of challenges that the autumn will bring with it, such as "gas price increase, energy crisis, high cost of living" driven by this rate of inflation, "difficulties in supplying materials", "geopolitical uncertainty" , which the Taiwan crisis is likely to exacerbate because it does not help the ceasefire projects in Ukraine, given that the "hopes" of negotiations with Moscow were pinned "on China".

The legacy he leaves to those who will follow him to Palazzo Chigi induces him, however, to think that "the forecasts for the third quarter are not so pessimistic" even in a context of "great difficulty for businesses and families" that this 17 billion euro decree intends to "alleviate".

THE DECREE - "A large part of the interventions concern the energy chapter ", explains the Minister of the Economy Daniele Franco , specifying that the measures favor families a little more (they go to a total of 5.8 billion), compared to companies (5.5 billion).

The provision itself allocates 15 billion, to which are added two additional measures (1 billion for healthcare and the 700 million ministerial decree extending the petrol discount to 20 September) which bring the total resources to about 17 billion. The cut of bills also arrives for the last quarter of the year. The social bonus for electricity and gas is strengthened; on gas there are protections for "vulnerable" consumers. Measures also for businesses, with the extension of the tax credit for the purchase of electricity and gas . For extra profits, given the lower than expected revenues, "there are measures that the penalties for payment obligations are strongly increasing ", explains Draghi himself, who deems it intolerable to evade this provision and already announces that if there is no response ," other measures "will arrive.

CUTTING OF THE WEDGE - But the spectrum of intervention of the measure is wide. First of all, there is the work chapter, with the two expected measures to put some extra money in the pockets of employees and retirees. The cut of the wedge is modified - and this is the real novelty - widened from 1 to 1.2 percentage points, bringing the current cut to 2 points overall from July to December. The revaluation of pensions by two percentage points is then brought forward from October. The Minister of Labor Orlando would have asked in the CDM for more resources for the wedge and to extend the smart working for frail and under-14 parents: resources that are not currently available, but that the minister has committed himself to find during the conversion.

BONUS - The 200 euro bonus will go to those who did not have it in July, including sports collaborators, while a check is underway whether to extend it to PhD students. Then there is the rule saves Ilva , with the possibility of a capital increase of up to one billion. Aid of 1.3 billion also arrives to counter the expensive materials , partly also destined for the works for Milan-Cortina (for which the governance also changes). Replenish the funds for the psychologist bonus and the bonus for transport passes . On the other hand, the minister for the Bonetti family, the Minister for the Bonetti family, has rejected the request to use the 630 euros of funds for the "not used" allowance for lower "applications" to strengthen the single allowance for low-income families to the estimates "and for the fact that 20% of families did not present the ISEE". At the push of the Mise, there are also measures to refinance the development contracts and Ipcei and guarantee the TV signal in the mountain areas. But the new aid raises also some controversy. To the unions, which reiterate their disappointment at the few ("irrelevant") resources allocated to employees and retirees, there is also the critical voice of the Provinces, which without the appropriations to cover the collapse in revenues risk not being able to guarantee services, even the school unions, which do not digest the introduction of the figure of the expert teacher, are controversial.

Now the measure is expected in the Gazzetta as early as the weekend, then in September it will arrive in Parliament.

The parties have pledged not to submit amendments to ensure a quick conversion and keep the new aid safe from the election campaign. It will be seen at the reopening of the Chambers. In the meantime, today no agreement has been reached at Palazzo Madama to approve the tax delegation: work has been postponed to 6 September for now.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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