Single check is unlocked. Bonetti: in July we leave

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March 10, 2021 Single check at the last mile: after months of stand by, also thanks to the government crisis, the parliamentary process is released and a new unanimous ok in the Senate Labor Committee prepares the way for the definitive go-ahead to the bill that "revolutionizes "aid to families, as all parties say in unison.

An "important convergence" that shows the willingness to proceed quickly, observes the Minister for the Family Elena Bonetti, in the Senate for the vote, ensuring that there is all the commitment, both her and the Ministry of Economy, to implement as soon as possible the delegation and achieve the goal of starting from July with the new allowance for dependent children.

The project had been in the Senate since last summer after the House had given the first green light, always unanimously, to the bill that delegates the government to institute the new "universal and progressive" instrument: it will be a tax credit or monthly allowance for children from 0 to 21 years that will go to all families including incapable and VAT numbers, so far excluded because most of the support for families is linked to the employment contract (employee) or to deductions (which are not perceived with levels of income under the no tax area). 

The government will have 12 months to implement the delegation but is ready, Bonetti assures us, "to follow up the implementing decrees as soon as possible".

Pending the final ok of the Senate Chamber, currently not yet on the calendar, the offices of the Family and those of the Mef will therefore have to speed up the drafting of the implementing decrees which will have to establish, among other things, the amount of the allowance. (an average of 200 euros per month per child was spoken).

However, the delegation requires that it be modulated on the basis of the ISEE, to divide it equally between the parents, to provide for a surcharge starting from the second child and to increase it between 30% and 50% in the case of disabled children.

Not only that, up to the age of 18 it will go to the parents then it will be able to continue up to the age of 21 and given directly to the children, on request, "to favor their autonomy".

The support will be paid after the age of majority, however, only if the children study, do an internship or have their first low-income jobs.  

To finance this reform, the Budget law has allocated the first 3 billion for 2021 (between 5 and 6 when fully operational starting from 2022), which are added to the approximately 125 billion currently dedicated to other instruments that will gradually go 'into the attic', from various bonuses (birth, baby), to deductions for dependent children and family allowance.