Calderone: 'Probable intervention on pension funds in the manoeuvre. Reasoning on work beyond 67 but voluntary".

An intervention in the manoeuvre on strengthening pension funds "is absolutely likely to be there". This was said by the Minister of Labour, Marina Calderone, in an interview with Radio 24. "It will not be distorting, but I think it is important to combine these two paths," she said about the public pillar and the complementary pillar, "not because the first pillar can be sufficient, because with the contributory system, if you pay a lot, the return will be adequate, but it is a further support, but also a way of being preventive, of looking to the future from a savings perspective.

Calderone said he agreed to the introduction of a new six-month period of silent consent for the transfer of severance pay to pension funds. 'I absolutely agree with a new six-month period of silent consent for the transfer of severance pay into pension funds. We need a new awareness campaign on complementary pensions'. "Supplementary pensions,' he continued, 'have the potential to be an aid to a decent pension. We must make workers change their mentality'.

With regard to the solutions that could affect the new rules for accessing retirement, the minister confided: 'I think that reasoning on flexibility in terms of extending the career path should and can be done on a voluntary basis'. Calderone thus commented on the hypothesis of postponing retirement after the age of 67 in the civil service on a voluntary basis at the request of administrations and the possibility of this also happening in the private sector. 'There must be,' he said, 'the worker's consent and that of the company or administration if we are talking about civil servants. In some roles in administrations, turnover is not so easy and not so immediate. We have to think about the fact that the transfer of skills takes time'.

Calderone explained that the employable, those who did not access the Inclusion Allowance according to the requirements of the new measure, were 414,000 people, not households; of these, some applied for the Work Training Support, some transited to the ADI for complex fragilities they had, and others found work. Regarding the controversy over families who lost the citizenship income and did not transit to the inclusion income, he said that 'about 89,000 people did not apply for the Sf and did not work. On this I think many assessments can be made. These are mobile audiences, it is not a static element'.