Sul postponement of pension payments from the first to the 10th of each month the Government is backtracking, but not entirely. According to what has been learned from trade union sources and from INPS, the Executive would like to impose the postponement - which will be operational from 2015 January XNUMX - only to who cashes the double check from INPS and INPDAP. In all, about 800 people: the other 15 million pensioners will receive the social security check on the first of the month if INPS pays and on the 16th if the treatment is paid by INPDAP. The unification of payments for those who receive both checks will bring the State annual savings of six million.
Unions and consumers thus breathe a sigh of relief, considering that in the version of the Stability law that arrived yesterday at the Quirinale (a still provisional text) the modification of the payment date was envisaged for all retirees.
Concerns had arisen because the postponement would have caused inconvenience to many pensioners in view of the deadlines at the end of the month. The Codacons, in particular, had threatened a collective action to distrust INPS from applying the new provision.
“We rebelled against an injustice and if we hadn't made our voice heard they wouldn't have changed it – said the general secretary of Spi-Cgil, Carla Cantone -. It's a partial result, we won't be completely satisfied until they also go back on the unification on the 10th of the month for the 800 pensioners who receive the double Inps-Inpdap check. Why are they unifying it downwards?”.
Cantone then announced that the unions had requested a meeting with the Government. Furthermore, a meeting with INPS top management is scheduled shortly.
For 5th November A day of mobilization of pensioners has been set with initiatives in Rome, Milan and Palermo to ask the government for policies to support the elderly. The CGIL, CISL and UIL pensioners' unions have considerable weight, being able to count on six million members in all.
