ROMA – «We tell the government that it is time to seriously open the social security worksite and review the logic of the contribution mechanism for greater fairness. It is no longer acceptable to cash in on pensions. Enough with the quota season.” Tania Scacchetti from today she is the new general secretary of Spi Cgil, the union’s pensioners. She is not the first woman, she is certainly the youngest: 51 years old.
Secretary, Prime Minister Meloni has promised a pension reform for this year. Do you believe it?
“Very little. This government has already demonstrated that it is disavowing its electoral promises and even making the Fornero law more rigid. Instead, it would be necessary to restart the discussion and put the issue of flexibility and fairness for all at the center: young people, retirees, pensioners. I don’t see any of this on the horizon. Only fake tables.”
Women receive 40 billion less in pensions than men
by Valentina Conte
Three flexibility measures expire at the end of the year: Social Ape, Quota 103 and Women’s Option. How do we proceed?
«We need a rebalancing. And stop giving only emergency and limited responses to certain categories of people, perhaps chosen from an electoral perspective. The season of exemptions and quotas is over. The country needs structural certainties on pensions and taxes. Starting with young people and women.”
Categories that the latest maneuver penalizes instead.
«The women’s option has effectively been cancelled. And to think that women have always paid a high price for social security measures. Current pensioners are the result of a huge disparity already in the job market and then at home with the care of children and parents. Poor working women, poor pensioners with a check 36% lower than that of men.”
So do young people.
«The current young people and generation of 40-50 year olds who are experiencing or have experienced a period of extreme employment flexibility will pay a very high price. It’s time to imagine compensation for their career gaps.”
Millennials’ pensions trapped in ever-higher threshold values. It’s the fault of the Meloni government and inflation
by Valentina Conte
Full indexation of pensions will return next January, if the government does not intervene.
«We fear that this will not be the case. This government has demonstrated a particular ability to put its hands in the pockets of pensioners, undermining their purchasing power. The next maneuver worries us very much, we fear that it will widen the gaps.”
Why this fear?
«Because the economy is not doing well, the spending of Pnrr funds is struggling. And because it will not be possible to make a deficit maneuver for the new Stability Pact, with 15 billion to be found to maintain the cut to the wedge and to the personal income tax. This government is impoverishing the scope of public protection, from healthcare to non-self-sufficiency. We fear that he will still do what he does best: fund his pensions.”
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