If you are a parasubordinate worker, one of the many coordinated and continuous workers (so-called co.co.co.), you are not entitled to notional contributions for military service. This is already the case, due to an oversight of law 335/95 – known as the Dini law – which introduced compulsory insurance for semi-subordinate workers, without however making any reference to the compulsory general insurance legislation for employees. And therefore not recognizing the possibility of having notional contributions for military service.
Self-employed workers, on the other hand, such as traders and artisans, despite paying lower contributions than para-subordinates, have the right to redeem the years of military service, once compulsory, for pension purposes. The same recognition also applies to employees.
In addition to the damage, even the insult: the INPS, in fact, has established that people who enroll in the national civil service, as conscientious objectors, have the right to be insured precisely with the separate management of the insured work. So if a co.co.co. has done the classic military service will not have the right to have those years in the pension account, if instead he has done the military service as an objector he will be able to redeem the years of service, even if he has to pay the relative contributions.
It seems that INPS, realizing the unclear situation, has brought the problem to the attention of the Ministry of Labour, so far without any results.
Another problem then, in the pension account, also arises with the redemption of the degree. This redemption is also recognized for short degrees, specialization diplomas and research doctorates, but the management of parasubordinates has been operating since 1 April 1996 and therefore does not recognize periods prior to that date. Consequently, university courses up to 31 March 1996 do not have the possibility of redemption in retirement, for subsequent courses the problem does not arise. For those between the two dates, the redemption is limited to the periods from April onwards.
