Pensions over 2,000 euros, increases reduced to 50% to finance Quota 103: the government’s idea – Corriere.it

The revaluation of pensions, in particular of treatments exceeding 2,000 euros, could be less than previously announced. In fact, the Meloni government is looking for a way to finance the new 103 quota. A measure that will allow you to leave your job at 62 with 41 contributions and should affect a potential audience of 48,000 workers, for a cost of around 750 million. The intervention is being examined by the technicians who are finalizing the Budget law, which will be discussed on the evening of Monday 21 November in the Council of Ministers. The Maneuver should be worth a total of 32 billion. The hypothesis of a cut in the revaluation of pensions has already aroused criticism from the trade unions, according to which the increase in allowances is the only instrument for preserving the purchasing power of pensioners, which has been greatly reduced by inflation and high living costs.

The hypothesis under study

As explained by the Minister for the Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, the items of expenditure other than expensive bills, to which the largest share of the resources envisaged by the Maneuver will be allocated, must find financing within the same chapters. The revision of the citizen’s income, in fact, is not sufficient to cover the expenditure of the intervention package destined for social security. The hypothesis on which we reason, according to what the Messengerthat of a 50% revaluation of the increases in treatments that exceed the minimum by four or five times, i.e. checks that exceed 2,100 or 2,600 euros gross per month. Currently, a revaluation to 90% is envisaged for benefits between 4 and 5 times the minimum and 75% for pensions above the threshold of 5 times the minimum, which could now drop to 50%.

The reaction of the unions

From what we learn, the Meloni government is working to freeze the revaluation of pensions. In particular they want to hit those who have worked for over 40 years paying all the contributions, said the general secretary of Spi-Cgil Ivan Pedretti, commenting on the possible cut in the revaluation. It would be – continues Pedretti – a cash operation carried out against workers’ pensions, the result of a life of work, to finance other measures and to retire some workers. Divide and conquer, as in the worst tradition of the right. If they do we will not be silent and we will be heard. Even the retired Uil does not spare criticism. It would be a really bad start for this government. Furthermore, there is talk of an intervention on gross pensions (which already do not have full revaluation) such that they cannot be considered rich and which are the result of years of work and contributions, says the secretary general, Carmelo Barbagallo. The revaluation of pensions is one of the few weapons to preserve the purchasing power of pensioners over time, indispensable today, with the galloping growth of energy costs and basic necessities.