VENICE (ITALPRESS) – At 31 December 2024 the number of invalidity pensions paid in Italy amounted to 4,313.351, of which 899,344 social security benefits and 3.414,007 of a civil nature. If we analyze the performance of these performances, we see that between 2020 and 2024 the social security benefits decreased by 14.5% (-152.309), while the civil ones increased by 7.4 percent (+234.770), although a large part (equal to +6.2%) rose between 2022 and 2024. It is estimated that in 2024 the expenditure on invalidity pensions was 34 billion euros, 13 of which covered the social security contributions and 21 of the civilian population. This is the CGIA Study Office. Are the cessation of citizenship income and the concurrent increase in civil invalidity pensions related? Officially, the two measures meet distinct purposes: citizenship income was conceived as an instrument of contrast to poverty and employment inclusion, while invalidity pensions protect people with recognised physical or mental limitations. That being said, the abolition of the income of citizenship has left a vulnerable part of the population characterized by structural employment difficulties. In this context, the increase in civil invalidity pensions could have represented for many families the only concrete form of economic support available.
Be clear: to demonstrate a direct correlation is impractical, both because of the lack of comparable data, and for the complexity of the issue involving fundamental rights and health conditions. However, the doubt that there has been some connection between the two phenomena remains. In particular in some areas of the country. Focusing attention on civil invalidity pensions, the macroarea which between 2020 and 2024 saw increased the number of benefits was the Mezzogiorno with a variation of +8.4% (+124.933 allowances). Also in this geographical area between 2022 and 2024 the increase was even 7.2%. No other geographical distribution of the country has recorded in both respects of such important increments. We also report that in the Mezzogiorno there is a population of 19.7 million, while in the North we record 26.3 million, however the first counts 500 thousand civil invalids more than the second. Official data are unfortunately not available. However, literature specialized in more than one occasion reported that in Italy the scams in the pension sector would amount to tens and tens of millions of euros a year. The Observatory on Italian Public Accounts managed to be more precise. In the period between 1 January 2020 until August 2021 the Guardia di Finanza has asserted that the frauds established in the social security sector (social allowances, civil invalidity pensions, etc.) amounted to almost 48 million euros.
The region that has the effect of total invalidity benefits (previous and civil) on the highest total population is Calabria (13.2%). Puglia (11:6), Umbria (11:3) and Sardinia (10:7). Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto all close with 5.1%. At the provincial level the result of Reggio Calabria (14,99 performances delivered every 100 inhabitants). Immediately after we see Lecce (14,24) and Crotone (13,88). The territorial realities less “interested” by the phenomenon of inability are Trieste (4,39 percent), Florence (4,12) and Prato (3,89). If we focus only on pensions paid to civil invalids, in 2024 the overall expenditure, as we said above, was 21 billion euros; almost half (46.6% of the total) is delivered in the Mezzogiorno. The most important annual amount of 2.73 billion is paid to Campania. There are 2.67 billion data in Lombardy and 2.38 billion due to Lazio. The average national monthly amount is EUR 501. Returning to observe the trend of the number of pensions of civil invalidity, between 2020 and 2024 the region that has undergone the highest percentage increase was Puglia (+14.1 percent). Follow the Basilicata (+12.2) and Calabria (+11.9). On the other hand, the realities where the increase was more contained are Tuscany (+2.7) and Friuli Venezia Giulia (+2.6).
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