Birth bonus in 2025: up to € 5,500 for one child, € 7,000 for two or more

The manoeuvre, in fact, for families with an Isee under 40,000 euro, introduces for 2025 and for 2026 an allowance equal to 1,000 euro for each child born or adopted from 1 January 2025, which will be paid by Inps in the month following the month of birth or adoption. The allocation is 330 million euro for next year and 360 million euro for the following year.

The new 'bonus bebè' - so renamed in memory of the birth allowance first introduced in 2003 by the Berlusconi government, then relaunched in subsequent years and finally cancelled in 2019 - is flanked (and therefore accumulated) by the universal single allowance provided for all dependent children up to the age of 21 (and beyond if disabled).

The single allowance in 2022 reformed all support measures for families, taking the place of those existing until then. As of 2024 (thus with the previous Budget Law, the first of the Meloni government), this measure was also increased for the youngest children: the basic amount of the measure was increased by 50 per cent under the first year of life; in the presence of at least two siblings (thus in families with at least three children) there is a further increase from the third child onwards, with an extra 50 per cent increase in these cases up to the child's third birthday.

By law, moreover, all the amounts of the single allowance, as well as the Isee thresholds and increases, are revalued in January each year and adjusted to the current cost of living: the 2024 consumer price index for blue- and white-collar households, which, barring major changes in December, was 1.2% in November (in January, Istat will formalise the annual indexation rate for the Foi), must therefore be applied to the amounts due.

But let us give a couple of examples. A newborn child with an Isee of less than 17,295 euros (threshold revalued by 1.2 per cent compared to the current minimum of 17,090 euros) will receive a monthly allowance of 199.4 euros, increased by 50 per cent within the first year of life, which translates - also revalued - into 302.7 euros per month. So a total of 4,540 euros for 15 monthly payments, to which the one thousand euros of the birth bonus must be added, for a total of 5,540 euros. On the other hand, in the presence of two more siblings (i.e. for a third child), the monthly allowance would rise to 400.8 euro, for a total of 6,011 euro, which becomes 7,011 euro with the one thousand euro of the birth bonus.

Lastly, the national aid package is often flanked by other contributions developed by the regions, municipalities, social security funds and private companies that already reward new parents in the area and in the field of corporate or professional welfare: in recent years, many have introduced ad hoc measures in this direction. In addition to these supports, there are also the benefits of the nursery bonus: paid out as a reimbursement for the expenses incurred, in 2025 it will be increased to 3,600 euro for everyone under 40,000 euro Isee, as envisaged by the manoeuvre currently being approved. A mix of aid that will decisively support the first years of life, while highlighting - even more markedly - the lack of prospects for the following years.