Baby bonus, Minister Lorenzin announces doubling: “There is risk demographic collapse” – The Daily

“sixty-six thousand births lost in 5 years.” Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin photographer so a phenomenon that has gone worse in recent years: Italians are no longer children. This is why the government is studying a countermeasure: double introduced by law Stability 2015. Couples who have a child will receive a Double check , writes The Republic . If we decide to give birth to a second child, they will benefit from an even higher figure. Ad that comes to 20 days before the elections of June and 5 months of the referendum on constitutional reforms on which Matteo Renzi to play the remainder of the mandate.

“If we continue with this trend, without being able to reverse it, in ten years that in 2026 in our country will be born less than 350 000 children a year, 40% less than in 2010. An apocalypse, told the newspaper Roman Minister, indicating the baby bonus as a way, but not the only one, to deal with what he calls “the true Italian emergency

.” p> “In five years we lost over 66,000 births, that is intended for a larger city of Siena. If we tie all this to the increase of the elderly and of chronic diseases, we have the picture of a dying country, “he adds. If more children are not born in Italy “can not fail to be a correlation with the economic crisis , so the bonus can have an important meaning for about two-thirds of parents who are below the threshold of 25 thousand euro the ISEE. It needs a policy of supporting the birth that is based on direct aid. Then it takes other measures. “

” For example, support for maternity , who must recover a social prestige and should not be an obstacle for the work. It is also important to the issue of services, such as nurseries , which should be enough to allow the parents to continue working when they have small children or not gutted to pay the babysitter. Then there is the question most health fertility. They must prevent the problems that prevent you from doing the children. And couples need to understand that deciding to have them too late, over age 35, can become a problem. “

This is why the government thinks doubled. Today the bonus is recognized to the nuclei with ISEE less than 25 thousand euro per year (receiving EUR 80 per month for each child) and to those who have lower than 7 thousand (which can count on 160 euro more per month). The plan is to bring the first aid to 160 € and the second 240 . Where they will find the money to finance the project? Lorenzin want to put the project in the next law of stability, raising funds and using the savings already derived from the declining birth rate, which is making a downgrading of the cost estimates for the contribution made to the family in 2014.

a Chigi palace emphasize that the hypothesis of doubling the baby bonus is, at present, only one of the proposals in the field . Priority, say the same sources, is an overall look on welfare instruments and not one or another hypothesis that, at the moment, they remain so.

The money goes found, emphasizes, “because it leaves the our future. I am sure that the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has 40 years and two children ( really the premier has three children, ed ) and like myself is sensitive to the demographic issue will accept my proposals, which will be resting in the law of Ncd. “” Stability minibonus a baby is not the solution, but only a election move , “he writes on twitter Corrado Passera , president of Italy Unica .

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