A guaranteed minimum income of between 600 and 780 euros per month, plus a minimum gross hourly wage of 9 euros. It is being discussed in the Senate, in the Labor Committee, where the examination of two specific and similar bills has begun.
Basically, the aim is to grant all citizens the right to receive a minimum income, as well as to delegate the Government to introduce the minimum hourly wage. The financial coverage of the charges should take place through higher revenues deriving, for example, from the increase in the tax levy on gaming and the corporate income tax rate, as well as from the sums referring to the choices not expressed by the taxpayers of the share of the 8 per thousand of Irpef, as well as through reductions and cost savings, including further cuts to public administrations, the revocation of contributions for publishing, the setting aside of the financial allocations entered in the estimates of the Ministry of Defense and the suppression of some non-economic public bodies.
The social security would be recognized to all Italian or EU citizens, as well as to foreigners from countries that have entered into bilateral social security agreements, who are resident in the national territory and who have reached the age of 18. For young people between the ages of 18 and 25, the possession of a professional qualification or a secondary school diploma, or the attendance of a study/training course is a necessary requirement.
The work of the commission is in its infancy. Some hearings are scheduled, but there are already some perplexities marked by the rapporteur, Pd senator Annamaria Parente: "Without prejudice to the need for an in-depth study of the delicate issue of basic income - she said -, some non-relevant profiles contained in the two legislative initiatives are already present in the delegation to the Government carried out with the law n. 183 of 2014 and will therefore return to the attention of the Parliament during the examination of the relative legislative decrees”.
Not only that: for Senator Parente, "an examination of the issues governed by these two bills cannot fail to take into account the changes in the discipline on the subject".
