THEINPS and the credit institutes have reached an agreement to allow those who receive two pensions, one of which is INPS, to receive payment on the first day of the month of pensions other than INPS as well. This was announced by the president of the INational Institute of Social Security Tito Boeri.
“We have completed the operation with the banks – Boeri said during a conference on poverty-. Now we wait for the government decree“. “For low-income retirees – continued the INPS president – it is very important to collect the entire amount at the beginning of the month”, but currently the Stability law provides for payments during the month.
The agreement between the parties involved provides that the banks, in exchange for the benefit of the arrival of the payments at the beginning of the month on the accounts of their current account holders, reduce the cost of the transfers charged to social security institutions. A similar agreement was also entered into by INPS with the post office in recent days.
In the INPS plans there is also a more detailed proposal to be presented to the government and Parliament by June: the main points will include the introduction of a guaranteed minimum income for citizens in the age 55/65 years, the hardest hit by the extent of poverty in the last decade.
The proposal, Boeri announced, will be self-financed by INPS, while to extend it to other age groups, however, it will take an economic intervention by the Government.
