Inps pension error: additional amounts withheld but not in the CU, 270,000 pensioners affected

A new mistake by the Inps, which first withheld the municipal surtaxes from pensioners who died in 2025, and then 'forgot' to report it in the Single Certification required to fill in the tax return. About 270,000 heirs are affected. The amounts, according to the National Social Security Institute, are on average less than 12 euros.

The Inps announces that it has updated the Single Certifications sent to the Agenzia delle Entrate, which is now in the process of adjusting the pre-filled declarations for taxpayers. The National Social Security Institute adds that the 'amounts affected are extremely small and, in most cases, below the tax threshold of €12'.

The Agenzia delle Entrate will complete the updating operations in the coming days. Taxpayers will therefore have to refer to the latest Certificazione Unica made available.

'Inps is sending the lists to the Cafes, which will notify the citizens concerned in the coming days,' explains the coordinator of the Consulta dei Caf, Giovanni Angileri. The rule provides that from 19 May one can cancel the 730 once and resubmit it a second time until 22 June as a Caf. On the other hand, for those who had already opened the precompiled tax return with the wrong Cu and had individually submitted it to the tax authorities, there is the possibility of making the change with the income model by October, losing the benefits of the 730. We therefore invite those concerned to contact the Caf network'.

This is not the first mistake made by Inps in 2026. More than 2 million Inps Unified Certifications were wrong, jeopardising the correct application of bonuses and deductions for Naspi, redundancy fund and maternity fund recipients; the institute then had to run for cover. In March, it emerged that the INPS had mistakenly paid out up to one thousand euro to a group of 15,000-20,000 pensioners who were then contacted to return the sum. The deduction for incomes between EUR 20 thousand and EUR 40 thousand, already recognised by the Inps in the credit adjustment on the March pay slip, was in fact later found not to be due in some situations (incomes assimilated to employment such as supplementary pensions and replacement allowances). Since May, the Inps has started recovering the sums improperly paid to pensioners, in a maximum of 8 instalments. With effect from 1 April, coinciding with the payment of the pension, there was the recovery in a single instalment of amounts up to 150 euro.