Catalfo, 87,000 workers still to be paid, 97% covered

"With reference to the payments made, it appears that, on 7 July: 3,120,499 workers have been asked to pay at least one monthly wage supplement; 3,031,495 of them have already been paid; they amount to 89,004 those who still have to be paid. 97.1% of eligible workers are therefore paid " . So the Minister of Labor, Nunzia Catalfo, answering the Question Time in the Chamber of Deputies. "Compared to the total of 3.1 million for which applications for payment of benefits were submitted at 7 July, the Institute has yet to provide 370,976 monthly salary supplements." So the Minister of Labor, Nunzia Catalfo, with reference to the INPS data. "With specific reference, then, tolayoffs by way of derogation, the Institute was able to start working on applications from the end of April 2020 : this is also due to the difficulties of some regions burdened by a huge amount of authorization requests that is much higher than the ordinary commitment . Furthermore, some questions formally in stock at INPS cannot be processed because, presenting procedural defects, they must first be canceled by the Regions themselves ", explains Catalfo." In many cases, however, the Ministry of Labor and INPS, thanks to a fruitful dialogue with company representatives and social security intermediaries, they intervened to correct anomalies and procedural complexities, thus leading to a streamlining of the "Here, he underlines" procedures in light of the data provided, taking into account the exceptional circumstances in which the 'INPS has been forced to operate, and without wanting to diminish in any way the extent of the consequences that any delay in payments generates to the detriment of workers, I can assure you that the maximum effort has been and will be made by the Ministry of Labor and INPS to protect workers and avoid the danger that the pandemic would cause disastrous and irreversible effects on the national economy ". During the emergency Epidemiologically, both the ministry and INPS, remarked, "have had to face to quickly implement an adequate income support plan for over 12 million beneficiaries, including over 4 million self-employed and freelancers, 5, 5 million private employees, 500 thousand citizens requesting babysitting bonuses and summer camps, 460 thousand workers requesting parental leave and 104 and 400 thousand nuclei who have requested the REM ". In a context of "full emergency, the existing procedures, traditionally slow and cumbersome, have been simplified and accelerated but due to the exceptional nature of the situation we are going through, an overload of unprecedented questions and practices has been generated", he said in response to the question posed by Camillo D'Alessandro (Iv). In this regard, he adds, "take into account the fact that in just 3 months of the Covid-19 emergency, INPS had to manage wage subsidies that involved over 5 and a half million workers, for over 2 billion cash hours integration, that is, a number of hours equal to more than 7 times those authorized throughout 2019 ".

" It is necessary to create a system of income support in constant relationship that is universal, that is, capable of including all companies and workers in an insurance mechanism but which - at the same time - allows to enhance differences and specificities of companies and productive sectors" . So the Minister Catalfo, responding to the Question Time in the Chamber of Deputies. The aim is to arrive at a reform of social safety nets "in the shortest possible time".