Citizenship income, Grillo: “Also for Istat it has a redistributive function”

“Citizenship income ‘effectively carries out a redistributive function’. This was stated by the president of Istat, Gian Carlo Blangiardo, during the hearing on the budget law in the budget committees of the Chamber and Senate”. The founder of the M5s, Beppe Grillo, writes it on his blog. “The amount – continues Grillo – represents, in the first fifth, 72.9% of the average equivalent disposable income of the beneficiary families in 2019. The largest number of beneficiary families (75.5%) is also concentrated in the first fifth. explained the president. “During 2020, the use of citizenship income ‘showed a marked increase in the months following April, reflecting the spread of lockdown measures'”, added Blangiardo. note Grillo, always citing the opinion expressed by the president of Istat, the disbursement “mainly involved the families of the first fifth while, in the following months, the share of beneficiary families placed in the second and third fifths increased”.