They are 200 pensioners who will have to return the fourteenth month of 2009. They had no right: the self-declarations submitted three years ago were wrong. To confirm the rumors of recent days was the president of INPS, Antonio Mastrapasqua, who spoke this morning on the first Rai radio channel.
“The fourteenth is a good initiative – said Mastrapasqua – but those who are not entitled to it cannot perceive it. Two hundred thousand people submitted wrong statements: we can only verify them when the Revenue Agency makes their income available in order to then be able to cross-reference the data. For this reason, the assessment is made when this sum has already been paid. Retirees who have unduly received the 14th will have to return it ".
Mastrapasqua then specified that INPS "will meet the representatives of the categories to find the best way to carry out the deductions, trying to safeguard the weakest groups".
On the question IDV senators Elio Lannutti, Giuliana Carlino and Alfonso Mascitelli presented a question. “The return of the fourteenth salary received in 2009 to INPS is an injustice – said Lannutti -. The Government, which up to now has only raged on the weakest groups, should immediately take steps to stop this umpteenth shame".
According to Senator IDV it is a question of “another mess of a country that defends golden pensions or Mastrapasqua's 25 jobs, while those who exceed, even slightly, the minimum threshold are beaten. Harassing pensioners is truly intolerable, given that the right to a fourteenth month salary, recognized by the Prodi government, represents a partial response to pensioners to guarantee them the recovery of the purchasing power of pensions stopped in 1992. For these reasons, the IDV asks to the Executive whether the procedure adopted by INPS for the recoverability of this credit is legitimate and whether INPS can affect the minimum treatment. Among other things, we want to know whether or not the institution has complied with the terms of income assessment established by law”.
