the unheard former Commissioner spending review Carlo Cottarelli had written in his report. A “territorial distribution” of disability pensions unbalanced to the point that the allowances paid in Calabria is in proportion to the inhabitants at least double those paid in Emilia-Romagna “suggests abuse.” But maybe it did not take even a so authoritative judgment to realize this. It would have been sufficient to look at the numbers less than superficial known for years.
official data
The INPS told us yesterday that in Italy you pay 2,000,000 980,799 ‘benefits’ for disabled civilians. Where by “performance” means pensions and disability allowances in addition to allowances for the blind and deaf. Well, one million 335 093 of these treatments disability, accounting for 44.8 percent of the total, are in the South, where is the 34.4 percent of the population. In the southern regions the ratio is therefore a check every 15.6 inhabitants, against one every 23.5 in the rest of the country. While whether invalidity pensions were the same proportion than in North Center, their number should not exceed 890 thousand. So there would be 445,000 pounds: one third.
The abyssal differences
All abuse? Surely not. We know that in the South the living and working conditions are in many cases very different than in the other regions. And this could perhaps explain some differences. But not certain depths that confirm the suspicion. In Veneto, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna there are 45 pension defined “welfare” for every thousand inhabitants. In Campania, however, they are 84. In Puglia 85, 91 in Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria even 92 97.
“a social safety net ‘
The fact is that in the South, disability pensions have never ceased to be a form of subsidy. In an interview with the print in 2003 he admitted candidly one of the best equipped southern leaders in obtaining consent. “For a long time, indeed, the case integration of the workers in the North corresponded to the South as a social safety net disability pension which served to moderate and mitigate the lack of state presence in the South. A form of balance,” even said Clemente Mastella . For years, undaunted, he continued to defend against all that curious balancing act. Even from the face of the resurgence of INPS penalty takers: “The South is a powder keg, it can explode at any moment. The climate is preinsurrezionale. They’re removing the disability pensions indiscriminately. ”
In 12 years +81.1 %
Laments completely unnecessary, it is true that in spite of the turns of the screw repeatedly announced spending on disability pensions continued to gallop. The 2014 annual report of the institute of security now led by Tito Boeri states that between 2004 and 2016 the outlay for these treatments has exploded, rising 8.5000000000 to 15.4000000000, an increase of 81, 1 percent. While their number has grown by at least 50 per cent, from one million 980 thousand to nearly three million that we have mentioned. This is mainly due to the progression of disability allowances, which in contrast to pensions are not paid in relation to income. And if the growth rate has slowed in recent years is a little consolation to the comparison of the situation inherited from the golden years. Ones, so to speak, in which that form of ‘balance’ was used by politicians as patronage lever. Sometimes even with the personalist nature lapels.
Relatives ‘facilitated’
Three years ago Amalia De Simone said the Corriere.it that among the close relatives of 30 councilors of one of the ten municipalities of Naples you could count 60 disability pensions. Not to mention the epidemic of blindness that traditionally affects the Sicily Region that while counting one-twelfth of the Italian population has one-seventh of all non-Italian blind.
The judicial investigations
But that is nothing has been done, especially in recent years, it can certainly not be said. The judicial investigations have brought to light many of the abuses to which it referred Cottarelli. Suffice to say that in 2014 and in Campania alone, 18,846 inspections have discovered 5,543 irregularities, with the lifting of many pensions: almost 30 percent. But it would be dishonest to deny that survive practical difficulties to combat and curb this phenomenon. And on top, not deny it, there are also some elements of the policy. Two years ago the Labour Minister Giuliano Poletti, newly installed, had promised a cut “drastic” to false disability pensions. According to INPS data, between January 2015 and January 2016 the number of treatments of this kind has increased by 94,997 units.
March 30, 2016 (edited March 31, 2016 | 00:16)
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