Pensions, increases arriving from January 1, 2022. Good news, pensions are increasing!
The figures: we refer to the “average” treatment of 1500 euros gross per month: it should be around 25 euros per month, for a total of 300 euros gross per year. As a result of the equalization, the revaluation of social security checks based on inflation could affect around 23 million taxpayers: an inflation rate which, according to Istat calculations, has however already reached + 1.7% in September. A situation that is not expected to decline in the coming months.
In reality, however, the increases on social security allowances will depend on the method of equalization that the executive wants to adopt. If the situation remains unchanged with respect to what was determined, the staggered system should return from January: a method that is advantageous for retirees, since the reductions in the revaluation rate are applied only to allowances above certain thresholds. This being the case, the recovery of inflation should be total for the part of the pension which reaches up to 4 times the minimum INPS (about 2 thousand euros gross per month), 90% between 4 and 5 times the minimum and 75% beyond. of this threshold. However, this remains the most optimistic scenario, namely the one in which the government chaired by the former governor of the European Central Bank decides to stick to what has been announced next year. If, on the other hand, a nice cut in pension spending were to arrive, the goodness of these calculations would be absolutely useless.
The only thing that seems certain at the moment is the drastic increase in prices, without the horizon being able to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel: no more zero inflation, therefore. The International Monetary Fund announces that the increase in prices will continue in the coming months, until reaching pre-Covid levels in mid-2022: annual inflation, according to this forecast, will reach peaks of up to 3.6% already in the months finals of 2021.