By the end of 2020 citizenship income it will expire for 635 families, more than half of the 1,16 million households that receive the subsidy. What will happen then? According to the rules, the payment must be interrupted for at least one month, during which families who still have the requisites (the most important is an Isee income of less than 9.360 euros) will be able to ask for an encore. After the break, the anti-poverty measure by M5S and launched at the time of the Conte 1 government will be able to resume for another 18 months.
But be careful: compared to the first period of the donation, the encore of the basic income brings with it an important novelty. The members of the family able to work, in fact, will be obliged to accept any job offer that arrives, throughout Italy. A single refusal is enough to lose the right to the subsidy.
From 27 March to 17 July, due to the coronavirus emergency, the obligation to follow a work inclusion path was suspended by signing an agreement with the employment center (with the exception of offers considered appropriate, in the Municipality of membership). Now this is no longer the case, so the right to basic income implies again the commitment to take action in the search for a job.
The problem is that now, precisely because of the crisis triggered by Covid, the economic conditions of poor families worsened further, so the one-month interruption of basic income risks being a serious problem for many people. Not surprisingly, since January 2020 applications for subsidies have increased by 25,8%.
The situation is made even more difficult by the low number of job or training offers that navigators have so far offered to recipients of basic income: just 220.048. Very little compared to the 1,23 million adults who, according to the agreements, would be ready to start working.
