Social cards up to 500 euros for 1.3 million families: here’s how it works

The “Dedicated to you” social card consists of 500 euros of support for shopping, fuel or public transport season tickets for families with an income of less than 15 thousand euros

The new one is coming anti-poverty social card with an increased amount a 500 Euros. The incentive is available to families resident in Italy and registered in the municipal registry with a ISEE not exceeding 15 thousand euros. We are talking about approximately 1.33 million families. You must not be the holder of other income support measures (inclusion allowance, citizenship income, shopping card, etc.). There social card it is not even payable to those who have a family member who benefits from unemployment, mobility and redundancy benefits.

THE 500 Euros from the social card can be spent on the purchase of basic food items (excluding alcohol) e fuel or alternatively for subscriptions to the local public transport service. The interministerial decree for the launch of the bonus is being defined. With the last budget law, 600 million euros were allocated for the social card 2024.

The “Dedicated to you” social card will be provided via prepaid and rechargeable electronic payment cards, distributed by Italian post via Postepay. The card is nominative and can be used starting from September 2024. There is no need to request, those entitled will receive it directly at the post office, after booking the collection. In any case, the Municipalities will communicate to interested parties the assignment of the bonus. The sum paid must be used entirely by February 28, 2025.

Social card 2024, Lollobrigida: “No ‘ricotta’ but a massive intervention”

The new card “will be active from next September, to give municipalities more time, once the summer has passed, to achieve correct distribution in metropolitan areas”. This was stated by the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, Francesco Lollobrigidaon the occasion of the presentation of the charter “Dedicated to you 2024” at Palazzo Chigi, specifying that “last year we achieved positive data, as 1.2 billion families benefited from the Social Card”. “The resources spent in total amounted to 520 million and in the end it was recorded that the 96% of the resources were spent on food and 4% on fuel”, added Lollobrigida. Among the new products that can be purchased with the Social Card this year, the agriculture minister listed “food products, fuel or public transport passes. Also PDO products, frozen vegetables, frozen bakery products, tuna and canned meat”.

“I thank the minister Giorgetti who in an overall budget difficulty managed not to take away resources from families in difficulty”, continues Lollobrigida. The card “is an intervention that is part of a set of interventions”. In particular 200 million for charitable organisations.” Let’s intervene on a picture that emerges and is certified” as regards the audience of recipients of the card, underlined the minister.

No “cottage cheese” but a “massive intervention” against social hardship which “has decreased” with the Meloni government. The government, he added Lollobrigida, “it is stable, not contentious, we work in harmony between ministries and entities”. “The dramatic effect” of the elimination of citizenship income for those able to work “was the increase in employment, less waste, protection of the Italian system, more equity and justice, capable of attracting the world of feat,” said Lollobrigida. “Thank you for the clarifications but we need to pay attention to a general framework, to the strategic action plan which we believe is more effective than donation systems”, she concluded.

Social card 2024, Calderone: “The State arrives home with support”

The paper ‘Dedicated to you‘ in 2023 “reached people and families who absolutely needed support, today it is even more welcoming in its formulation, especially with regards to the amount made available”. The Minister of Labor and Social Policies said this, Marina Elvira Calderone, speaking via video link at Palazzo Chigi. For the minister, this “represents an exceptional demonstration of how careful the administration is today also not to burden citizens with excessive obligations, using technology and an important partner like theInps“. In this case – he added – the citizen “will not need to ask a question”, but “the State arrives at home with a service and support”. “This – he concluded – is the most tangible demonstration of the sensitivity that the government is demonstrating towards people and families who are in need and is alongside other interventions made.”