Pensions, increases from 2022. Let’s clarify.
Over 22 million Italians (22.83 to be precise) should benefit from the monthly pension allowance update. All this – reads on https://tg24.sky.it – will weigh about four billion euros on the INPS coffers. The pension will be adjusted on the basis of consumer prices, which will be announced by Istat in the coming weeks. Not only the INPS will have to revaluate the social security checks, but also the other pension institutions.
The revaluation of the pension will not be the same for everyone, but will vary according to the membership bracket of each pensioner. According to some estimates circulated in these hours and according to what reported by Il Messaggero, an extra of about 300 euros per year is arriving for those who today collect around 1,500 euros per month (therefore equal to three times the minimum check disbursed by ‘INPS).
This means that the retiree will see their pension increased by 25 euros per month starting from January 2022. Obviously this is a gross figure.
These increases are due to the fact that it now becomes necessary to compensate for the increase in prices. The inflation rate, according to Istat surveys, touched 1.7% in September and therefore it is unlikely to fall. If in 2020, before the outbreak of the pandemic, social security checks had increased by 0.5%, in 2021 everything had remained unchanged.
The next increase on payslips, that of 2022, will be calculated on the basis of the equalization method that the government will want to adopt. The staggered system should be re-applied, which is more advantageous for the pensioner because the reductions in the revaluation rate apply only to allowances above certain thresholds.
The recovery of inflation will be 100% for the part of the pension up to 2,000 euros per month gross, 90% for pensions which are 4 and 5 times the minimum (which corresponds to 500 euros) and 75% above this threshold.
From 2014 until today it has happened that the former worker whose pension reached a certain threshold had his revaluation reduced on the entire pension treatment and not only on the excess part.
At the time of Mario Monti’s government, the premier had frozen the indexation for all pensions above 1,500 euros gross for 2012 and 2013, therefore more than three times the minimum INPS. However, the Constitutional Court had rejected – and retroactively – this choice, and the pension cuts had been partially reimbursed to the legitimate pensioner.
The Labor Commission of the Chamber has announced that it will propose a “contribution to the pension adjustment path” to be included in the next budget law. These are the words of the president Romina Mura of the Democratic Party, after the hearings of the CGIL, CISL, UIL and UGL on the social security chapter. This is “an ambitious, but not impossible, goal that we set ourselves”. The unions are focusing on the “guarantee pension” that fills the contribution ‘holes’ of discontinued workers, to guarantee “a decent amount of future allowances for the youngest”.