Pensions, INPS: here is the alternative at 41 and 100

The hypothesis of anticipating only the contribution quota to those who want to retire, leaving the salary part at the age of 67 is “fully sustainable” because in the medium term it does not entail substantially any burden on the state coffers. It is the INPS president, Pasquale Tridico, before the Labor Commission of the Chamber, who thus defends his proposal for retirement as an alternative to the 41 share of the unions and the 100 share expiring. “Flexibility and financial sustainability” are the qualities of the proposal that does not design a rigid ‘cage’ within which to contain future retirees but leaves the worker the opportunity of choice with costs that in the medium term, he continues, are substantially zero. On balance, from 2022 to 2027 there would be 332 thousand additional pensions that could be activated with the proposal against a cost of 4.2 million between 2022 and 2027 which would then be recovered from spending savings that from 2027 to 2031 would be equal to 2 billion euros in total. To access retirement of the contributory part only, Tridico still remembers, one must be at least 63-64 years of age, a ceiling that is in any case susceptible to adjustment to life expectancy; be in possession of at least 20 years of contributions; have accrued at the time of the choice a pension contribution amount equal to or greater than 1.2 times the social allowance. In that moment the worker, in fact, will be able to access the pension treatment consisting of the sum of the salary quota and the contribution quota determined at the moment of access to the service. Tridico still remembers a method of retirement, the only contributory one, “partially cumulative with income from employment and self-employment” as well as it would be possible to anchor the performance to future generational relay mechanisms, also linked to part time. incompatible, he concludes, with direct pension treatments, income support treatments, citizenship income, social Ape and compensation for the cessation of commercial activity. SOCIAL APE – Once fully operational, it would cost approximately 1 billion euros to expand access to the Social Ape identified by the Technical Commission for work on the pension reform, according to the calculation of the estimated higher costs deriving from the amendment to the legislation. by technicians: extension of the social Ape until 2026; integration of some codes of professions referring to activities similar to those currently present in the heavy duty category; the elimination of the condition of termination of the unemployment benefit for at least 3 months for the purposes of access to the social Ape and reduction of the requirement of seniority in contributions for burdensome members of the construction sector from 36 years to 30 years. ” categories of activities burdensome for access to the social Ape would also have consequences for the attainment of the right to retirement in favor of precocious workers as well as for the purpose of exclusion from the adjustment to life expectancy for access to old-age retirement “, explains again. In particular, the cost as a whole would amount to 126.7 million in 2022; to 337.1 million in 2023 to reach 520.7 million in 2024.