• Coronavirus, Conte: "7 and a half billion to support families and businesses"
  • Bologna, precarious workers and riders ask for 'quarantine income'
  • Citizenship income, INPS: 960 thousand applications accepted

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March 28, 2020 "Guaranteeing income for all, with an easy-to-use tool. There is agreement with the opposition on this. Let's call it emergency income, or extraordinary income. It will be valid until we return to normal. We are thinking of simplifying the procedures of access to citizenship income, extending it to those who do not have it, and without the conditions provided ". The Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Laura Castelli, said it in an interview with La Stampa. And he added: we will give it "as soon as possible and the figure will be decent. We will use all the necessary resources. Everyone will be able to cope with the necessary expenses. There are already some tools. We are working on this. It is a just requirement put on the table by the majority and opposition in these hours. "

"After 10 years of battles we understand how indispensable citizenship income is"
"After 10 years of battles on citizenship income, today perhaps someone is aware of how much a welfare measure serves as a social guarantee - says Castelli - How indispensable, while the country stops, guaranteeing everyone an income in order to pay the rent, bills and do the shopping ensuring on the one hand the well-being of the citizen in difficulty and on the other avoiding potential and dangerous social conflicts ".

Misiani: extending citizenship income
"Today, debt and deficits come later. The priority is keeping the economic system and employment. Now the watchword is whatever it takes. It must also apply to fiscal policy." Deputy Minister of Economy Antonio Misiani said in an interview with Avvenire. On the decree to be launched in April, the exponent dem does not get out of balance "will be greater than the 25 billion committed in March, but the final figure must be calibrated on everything that must be done to save jobs and companies". "We stand in front of an unprecedented challenge, which is not only health, economic and social but also affects our being community, the spiritual and psychological stability of the country", continues Misiani.

The maintenance of the occupation worries the deputy minister: "we are gathering the demands of the economic world starting from the assumption that nobody should lose their job". "We will not just refinance the March measures - continues Misiani - we want to improve the support mechanisms and also reach those who we have not been able to reach before".

De Magistris: "Establishing quarantine income"
The alarm cry also comes from local institutions. "The government must immediately establish quarantine income for all people who are left without money. It is necessary to immediately put liquidity into their pockets to allow for basic necessities. Naples does and will do its part." The mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, writes it on Twitter. Yesterday the first citizen announced the approval of a resolution to establish a "citizen solidarity fund", asking at the same time for government intervention because, he explained, "if the state does not intervene in a while it will be a tragedy" .

Role: extending income to those who had "undeclared" work
Extend the income of citizenship to that part of the population that has found its economic livelihood in undeclared work and that today has no form of protection. This is the request, made in an open letter to the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, by the senator of the mixed group Sandro Ruotolo, who on Wednesday had presented an urgent question to the ministers competent on this issue.