A check from 320 € a month for a million poor people. This will mainly be the support plan for people in poverty envisaged by the Government. This was announced by the Minister of Labour Giuliano Poletti, who explained that income support will be accompanied by a plan for social inclusion.
The process of this Italian way al minimum income it has already started with the approval of the enabling bill by the government last week. Within six months of the green light from Parliament, the implementing decrees will arrive and the reform should start in 2017.
Over time, then, the government's goal is to increase the number of beneficiaries, extending it to all four million Italians who live in conditions of absolute poverty in order to "give everyone - explains Poletti - the possibility of live with dignity. It is a reform that is worth at least as much as the Jobs act”. Whoever receives the allowance, concluded the minister, "will have certain obligations, such as sending their children to school or accepting a job".
