Inpgi, Boeri rejects entry into INPS: “we needed a performance cut”

The government’s choice to grant the Inpgi entry into Inps to avoid the substantial bankruptcy of the social security institution of journalists causes the pension experts to discuss and divide. The first to completely reject the operation inserted with an ad hoc provision in the budget bill was the former INPS president, Tito Boeri. Before transferring the Inpgi to the INPS, he told Adnkronos, “a management commissioner and a cut in the existing services should have taken place because it is not acceptable for taxpayers to take on such generous services and so disproportionate to the contributions paid to lend to a public system that is already in serious difficulty due to demographic trends. At this point and with 250 million of debt per year, the Inps enters the INPS, taking over all these very expensive services to the community “, he says conversing with the Adnkronos. And it adds to the dose: “not only has there been no police commissioner or any intervention on performance was decided, but the Board of Directors remained in force because it was granted the possibility of keeping the Inpgi 2, something else absolutely incomprehensible considering that in Inps there is a separate management and therefore Inpgi 2 should have merged there. But no: it is as if they had passed a bad company to Inps and had kept the only active management for themselves “, he continues listing all the reasons that have made the “bail out” excessive: The pgi, he continues, “has maintained the rules of the remuneration system without switching to contributory, however, maintaining excessively generous returns in remuneration and without setting, among other things, ceilings at the level of contributions it has allowed, especially to those who have had very steep and profitable careers, to retire with millionaire treatments “. A passage, among other things “that” creates a serious precedent “.” The current operation will weigh on general taxation, on taxpayers, on all of us who pay taxes and at the same time will set a very serious precedent and will not push the cash registers to improve their management, to push them towards more prudent management. Indeed, since they know that sooner or later they can be saved, they will continue to guarantee too generous benefits “, concludes. Of course, as explained by the university professor and pension expert, Giuliano Cazzola, the transfer of the Inpgi to the INPS” avoids incoming damage and secures the pensions of members “but the reasons for the collapse of the pension management which in 2020 reported a deficit of 250 million” lie in the transformations that have taken place in the labor market in the information sector “, he explains again to Adnkronos / Labitalia before remitting on the discussion table a proposal advanced over the years without success: that of making the INPS of the privatized coffers, a sort of ‘system’ based on the solidarity of the categories of freelancers, perhaps starting from the unification of the latest coffers established with Legislative Decree 103 after the Dini reform, which moreover have identical rules. “But I have always found a wall”, he adds. Inpgi’s essay in the INPS is “a partial intervention that absolutely does not solve the structural problem, which is not that of pensions,” says Secretary General Raffaele Lorusso, to Adnkronos. “The problem is that of the publishing crisis, understood as an industrial system and as a labor market” urging the government to start a permanent table on publishing. “We cannot face an epochal crisis like the one we are experiencing with a law written in 1981. The crux is this: the Inpgi is the result of the crisis in the sector, of the trend of the labor market. It is not the result of management. We need to address the issue of the structural crisis in publishing, we need legislative measures that up to now have not been there either in the field of work or in a whole series of other open issues concerning the sector, from fair compensation to gag complaints. We ask the government for this. ” But also the president of the INPS Civ, Guglielmo Loy, expresses some perplexity about the operation. “The transparency operation is good” achieved with the transfer of the Inpgi to the INPS from 1 July but it is necessary to better understand “the perimeter and the mechanism by which the deficit will be dealt with and the rules that guarantee the application of the contribution : it is necessary to avoid that the red enunciated by Inpgi could in some way drag with it other active management “. On the other hand, he concludes, it is not the first time that an operation of this type has been made but there are essentially two ways to make up for the Inpgi deficit: “either through general taxation, but then the game is political, or by fishing from others funds in surplus, from that of private workers or from separate management, but being careful not to drag other managements into the abyss “, he continues. In a word, he concludes, “solidarity is fine but it must translate into sustainable solidarity for all”.