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June 17, 2021 In May, the recipient nuclei of income or citizenship pension were 1.3 million for more than 2.92 million people involved.

It can be read in the INPS Observatory on Citizenship Income according to which the average benefit in the month was 551 euros for 717.7 million of expenditure.

In the first five months of 2021, the families who obtained at least one month's benefit were 1.6 million for almost 3.63 million people involved.



In May - reports INPS - the recipients of Citizenship Income (RdC) were 1.18 million with an average monthly amount of 583 euros, while the recipients of Citizenship Pension (PdC) were 125 thousand with an average amount of 263 euros. Overall, the families with the benefit in the month are over 1.3 million for 2.92 million people involved.



Compared to May 2020, in which the total number of households was equal to 1.12 million and the average monthly amount of € 539, there was therefore a tendential increase of 16% in terms of beneficiary households and a growth of amount of 2%. There is a slight variation in the average composition of the beneficiaries: in 2019 (April-December) it was equal to 2.44 members, a value which fell to 2.34 in 2020 (January-December) and to 2.26 members in the first months of 2021 (January-May).   



The recipients of income and citizenship pension are concentrated in the South and the Islands with over 818,000 families and nearly two million people involved. Families with minors who have an income are 426,708 for 1,589,792 people involved and an average amount of 669 euros. There are many more single-member families who have the benefit (570,859) with an average amount of 447 euros. Overall, the families without minors who have the income are 873,862 for over 1.3 million people involved.



INPS: in Campania 275,000 families with Rdc, like the entire North 


In Campania the families who received the income or the citizenship pension in May were over 275,000, a number that is close to that of the entire North (281,786). This is what emerges from the tables just published by INPS on citizenship income according to which the people involved in Campania by the benefit are 716,000 while the average amount per family is 623 euros. In the North, the people involved in 281,786 families are 557,500. The average amount for each nucleus is 479 euros. In the South and in the Islands, the families who held the measure to combat poverty in May amounted to 818,603 for 1,960,220 people involved.



Positive annual balance of jobs in March, +191,000


The annualized balance of job positions, that is to say the difference between the job positions in place at the end of the month observed compared to the similar value at the same date of the previous year in March, returns positive for 191,000 units. The INPS notes this in the Observatory on precarious work. The comparison is on the month in which the lockdown began. The annualized balance was affected for a large part of 2020 from the consequences of the health emergency, presenting a negative trend until September, with a slight recovery in the months of October and November, and then returning negative until February 2021 (-37,000). The month of March 2021 - writes the INPS - instead shows a growth of 191,000 units; this result is the result of a positive balance of permanent (+208,000) and temporary contracts (+64.000), while the balances of the remaining contracts are still negative, albeit in recovery compared to February. 



The figure for permanent contracts is affected by the freeze on layoffs in force until the end of June for some sectors and until the end of October for others.



Positive balance in the first 3 months of 271,000 posts


The net change in jobs in the first three months of the year (hiring, more transformations less terminations) was positive for 271,000 posts. It can be read in the INPS Observatory on precarious employment according to which the net change for permanent contracts was equal to 96,041 units while that of fixed-term contracts was positive for 107,930 units. The balance is also positive for other types of work.



The hires activated by private employers in the first three months of 2021 were 1,274,000, with a decrease compared to the same period of 2020 (-18%) partly due for the months of January and February to the effects of the emergency linked to to the Covid-19 pandemic, while in March 2021 there was a recovery (+ 16%) compared to the same month of 2020, the period in which the lockdown began.



The decline concerned all types of contracts, but was more pronounced for recruitments with intermittent (-36%) and open-ended contracts (-25%). Given the widespread and transversal effects, the decline in the first quarter concerned hires for all size classes and for all hourly types; however, there was a more pronounced decline in companies with up to 100 employees (-22%) and in part-time employment relationships (-26%).     



 There were 111,000 transformations for a fixed period in the first quarter of 2021, also down compared to the same period of 2020 (-36%); in the same period the confirmations of apprenticeship relationships which reached the end of the training period increased by + 13%.



Terminations in the first three months of 2021 totaled 1,003,000. The decrease compared to the same period of the previous year (-33%) was particularly accentuated for seasonal contracts (-58%) and intermittent contracts (-48%); for permanent contracts in the months of January and February there is a reduction of 33%, while in March there is a reversal with an increase of 7%. The contraction in economic layoffs relating to permanent employment relationships was in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, equal to 65%; at the same time disciplinary dismissals increased by 8%.Termination due to the end of the contract is the type that presents the most marked reduction due to the strong reduction in the hiring of forward contracts (-38%).



In the period January-March 2021, 7,292 employment relationships (4,468 hires and 2,824 permanent transformations) benefited from the benefits provided for by the three-year structural exemption for the activation of permanent contracts for young people up to 35 years ( read. 205/2017), a sharp decrease compared to the same period of the previous year,



In the first quarter -65% economic layoffs


Redundancies of an economic nature in the first quarter of 2021 were 54,420 with a decrease of 65% compared to 157,302 recorded in the same period last year. It can be read in the Inps Observatory on precarious work according to which the so-called disciplinary dismissals have instead increased from 27,853 to 29,419 (+ 8%). There were 36,140 layoffs from permanent contracts compared to 104,403 in the first quarter of 2020. The data are affected by the measures on the blocking of layoffs introduced by the Government to face the economic crisis following the pandemic.