Citizenship income, the fears of the Third Sector for the fragile. Tridico: it’s a mistake to take it away from those who don’t have a job

The government puts its hand on the citizen’s income and it’s a battle right away. According to Treasury Undersecretary Federico Freni, the “Mia” “comes from the desire to resolve the issue of active policies and to move what is now a subsidy to the issue of active policy” But the world that deals with the most fragile every day is worried . «Sia, Rei, RdC, Mia? That you change your name, we don’t care. Poverty is not a fault and the job of us social workers is to intervene where there is need, as long as there is need, trying to do our part so that we can get out of that condition. But reforms are not made at no cost and to work they need people – services, the Third Sector – who can carry out what is required’» says Gianmario Gazzi, president of the association of social workers.

“Work is not the only solution to complex problems and social exclusion is increasingly widespread – he adds – but we have always maintained that a correction was necessary to a measure that has allowed very few scammers to discredit a principle that we defend , or that the State must intervene where, for a thousand reasons, poverty wins over dignity”. «For this – he concludes – we are waiting to understand how the “employable” will be evaluated, how the ISEE will be controlled, how the correction on the residence will be, what the disbursement will be for rent and large families… Ready to work, as always without prejudice , as always on the side of the most fragile”.

According to the president of INPS Pasquale Tridico «for the so-called non-employable, little changes, the citizen’s income is confirmed to be fundamental as a fight against poverty. There was work to be done on active policies, on everything around the measure and this seems to me to go in the right direction». Tridico explains that «the minimum income is a measure envisaged by the European Union, all those who are below a certain threshold must have an income. Italy will have to deal with the directives of the European Commission on minimum income, to allow those who cannot find work to lose their income. It actually seems to me a great criticality ». “We have many inactive people and we have inclusion projects that are often not carried out by Municipalities and employment centers – he underlined again – here it seems to me that there is a very strong push in this direction”.