Padoan: There will be some intervention and survivors’ pensions – BBC

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Milan , February 17, 2016 – 17:02

the survivor’s pension will not be affected. After Giuliano Poletti, including Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, denied any possibility of intervention on survivors’ pensions. It did answering the question time in the Chamber, in the same terms used two days ago by the Minister of Labour. “The government – ensures Padoan – did not study any intervention and survivors’ pensions. All treatments remain intact. ” The case erupted when the opposition and the President of the House Labor Committee, Cesare Damiano (Pd), had noted that the draft law on the fight against poverty, which the government recently tabled in Parliament, there is also a reorganization of welfare benefits and those related to social security income. And among the latter also includes survivors’ pensions, although they are not explicitly mentioned in the bill. The controversy arose as to whether the measure provides, as a general criterion, that future performance (not those in place) are not related to income but ISEE, the indicator that takes into account all of family wealth (income, savings, investments, real estate). There was therefore no risk of a hold on requirements. Risk that, after the double denial (Poletti, Padoan), it should be dropped.

Do not change the rules

the survivor pensions enjoyed by about 4.3 million people, mostly widows, for an annual cost of 41 billion Euros, and will continue to be paid under the current rules. The surviving spouse receives 60% of the deceased’s pension. This percentage drops to 45% if the surviving partner has income more than three times the amount of the minimum pension, ie € 1,505 gross per month, and 30% if it has income more than 5 times the minimum (€ 2,509 gross per month). The percentages increase if there are dependent children.

In the focus pensions of residents abroad

After excluding interventions on reversibility, Padoan, as it did Poletti, stated that ‘all what the delegation aims is to overcome overlapping. ” For example those between such performance provided by the state and local authorities. In addition, the viewfinder there are also some benefits whose beneficiaries are Italians living abroad, said the delegation. To be implemented with legislative decrees issued by the government within six months of the same delegation in Parliament. The reform explicitly excludes from intervening performance ranging disabled and invalids. The aim of the reorganization is to find resources to add to funds already earmarked for the fight against poverty: 600 million in 2016, which will rise to one billion by 2017.

February 17, 2016 (edited February 17, 2016 | 18:19)

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