"We don't have the verification tools, especially those relating to the assessment of the movable assets of those who access the benefit: therefore in retrospect we could find ourselves carrying out a recovery action against families who are not doing well, more than 100 thousand families from whom we can also request a refund 10 thousand euros". The warning comes from the president of theINPS, Tito Boeri, who spoke on the La7 broadcast on Monday evening Eight and a half.
"It would be better to equip ourselves for the checks before and not after paying the income", Boeri explained again, underlining that the operation would take a few months. Technical times that however clash with the needs of politics: from the point of view of the majority, in fact, it is clear that the disbursement of the basic income must start before the European elections in May.
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT? INPS AND ISTAT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
Another controversial point of the pentastellata flag-measure is the reference audience. Also on Monday, when presenting the new card with which the income will be distributed, the Minister of Labor and Grillino leader Luigi Di Maio repeated twice that "the state will distribute the income to 5 million people, 1,7 million families".
Shortly before that, Boeri, this time in a hearing in the Senate, had given completely different numbers: according to INPS, the potential income audience is made up of 1,2 million families for a total of 2,4 million poor people. Even Istat, still in hearing, speaks of 1,3 million families and 2,7 million individuals. The same government, in the technical report to the decree, spoke of 1,248 million families, which however according to Pasquale Tridico, adviser to Minister Di Maio, correspond to "4 million poor people".
MORE THAN HALF OF BENEFITS FOR SINGLES: “DAMAGED FAMILIES”
But it's not over. Again according to Boeri, half of the families entitled to income do not formally receive any income, but "among them there are also tax evaders and undeclared workers".
Furthermore, “the type of nucleus on which the RC is concentrated is that of singles – explains the INPS number one – who represent more than 55% of the beneficiary nucleuses. This concentration of the RC, in terms of both beneficiaries and share of resources, on nuclei with a single component is due to the peculiar equivalence scale adopted by the RC, which has no counterpart in any of the equivalence scales used internationally to grade the welfare treatments based on the number of members of the family nucleus, as well as the imposition of a ceiling (set at 2,1 times the level assigned to a single person) on this adjustment. All this reduces the benefit in terms of personal economic well-being for households with children or in any case numerous, those where the highest poverty rates are recorded".
For Boeri, the problem is that the citizen's income "sets a very high level of service for an individual and therefore, due to cost containment needs", proportionally reduces the aid provided for large families.
“TOO HIGH CHECK DISCOUNTS WORK”
Not only that: "The high level of performance for an individual has as further contraindications the risk of crowding out income from work - continues the President of INPS - Just think that, according to INPS data, almost 45% of private employees in the South he has net income from work lower than that guaranteed by the civil liability to an individual who declares that he has zero income. How many RC earners will have such high transfers? According to our estimates, around 30% of RC recipients will receive a transfer equal to or greater than 9360 euros net. The median value of the distribution of transfers is around 6000 and that is still higher than the labor income of the lowest 10% of the labor income distribution”. Moral of the story: "All this suggests that the discouragement effects at work are relevant".
Confindustria also arrives at the same conclusions. According to Pierangelo Albini, director of the Work and Welfare area of the industrial association, "the 780 euros per month could discourage people from looking for a job considering that in Italy the median salary of young people under 30 is 830 net per month".
