I Salerno pensioners are among the poorest in Italy. This is what emerges from the data released by Spi Cgil Napoli and Campania which on October 29th will bring pensioners from Campania to Piazza del Gesù in Naples with 9 buses arriving from Salerno. According to the numbers released by the union, in fact, the average monthly amount of Salerno’s pensions, per capita, amounts to around 805 euros compared to the 841 euros received on average by pensioners from Campania. The pensions paid by the INPS of Salerno, excluding the management of public employees, amount to 117 thousand euros for private workers, for the self-employed and para-subordinate workers to 70,116 euros while the welfare benefits, i.e. the social allowance, amount to 94 thousand 423 euros.
A gloomy picture which worsens considering the INPS data according to which, in the Salerno area (which has 251,494 pensioners, excluding disability and support pensions), the average monthly amount (referring to all managements) it is 1,300 euros for women and 1,920 euros for men compared to the national average of 1,400 euros in the case of former female workers and 2,150 euros for former workers. In short, a gap that widens going down from North to South and that widens in the relationship between women and men. «If we consider any other Northern province – underlines the secretary Spi Cgil Naples and Campania, Franco Tavella – there isn’t a single one that has the same numbers. Once again, the data speaks of the ruthless photograph of the difference between ours and the provinces of the North of the country which risks worsening with the launch of the Calderoli Bill on Differentiated Autonomy. We therefore demand a revaluation of pensions to face an inflation that has decimated the purchasing power of thousands of people and we demand the expansion of the number of beneficiaries of the 14th. We will be in the streets to defend public health impoverished by cuts to the point of crumbling the constitutional right to defend health».
The policies implemented by the executive on the national health system, in fact, according to secretary Tavella, are having the effect of «dismantling public healthcare with a number of healthcare personnel that is among the lowest in Europe and with millions of people who cannot resort to private healthcare and give up treatment». According to the latest statistics from the Passi d’argento Foundation, in fact, in Campania 32.7% of the people who need it give up treatment and many are elderly.
«In terms of health and people’s lives, these seem to me to be dramatic data to which is added a forecast of an increase in pensions of 3 euros per month and only this, at least it would seem, contains the Budget Law for pensioners. It seems to me that the disaster is complete and it seems to me that, once again, unfortunately, Italian pensioners are treated on the one hand like ghosts despite the fact that they represent a third of the population and on the other hand the pensions are used as ATMs for the government. The combination of these two aspects creates a truly alarming scenario», concludes Tavella.
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