Il INPS site it immediately went haywire. Too many questions: many more than the technicians expected. From Wednesday XNUMXst April, in fact, VAT numbers and self-employed workers can submit - through the IT platform of the social security institution - the request to obtain the 600 euro indemnity introduced by the government with the Cura Italia decree. This money should cover (in part) the earnings lost in March due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The problem is that, already since midnight, many users have had difficulty accessing the INPS website. Some couldn't even view the page, while others struggled to navigate through the sections to submit the question following the instructions published in recent days by the Institute itself. The reason? Simple: excess traffic. A very large number of people are trying to carry out the same operation at the same time, putting pressure on the servers on which the Inps site is based. Which therefore, as the computer scientists say, goes continuously in crash.
"From about 8.30 in the morning to around 300 we received XNUMX questions - he told Ansa Pasquale Tridico, president of INPS – Now we are receiving 100 questions per second. Something never seen on the INPS systems, which are holding up, although blockages are inevitable with these numbers”.
But that's not all: since late morning many users have also begun to report "exchanges in person", with accesses that are made with names different from those of the applicants. In other words, those who think of entering their personal area find themselves faced with the sensitive data of other random taxpayers. A very serious damage in terms of privacy.
But why are so many people trying to submit the application in the shortest possible time? The suspicion is that the Italians don't trust them: they think that the indemnity will be guaranteed only to those who request it more quickly, while the money won't be enough for latecomers.
In the past, various bonuses and subsidies were actually paid out with this "click day" logic, or rather "while stocks last". But this is not the case: "There's no rush – reassures Tridico – Questions can continue to be sent throughout the crisis period, also because the Government is launching a new provision both to refinance the current measures and to introduce new ones".
Too bad Tuesday night – right on the IPS website – has appeared opposite communication: it was written that the applications would be evaluated in chronological order, until the expenditure ceiling was reached, which the decree of 17 March sets at 3 billion. After that, the disclosure disappeared and Tridico hastened to deny it. But by now the flea had entered the ear of 5 million self-employed and VAT numbers.
