Dedicated to You' card: the requirements, how to obtain it and how to use it
The distribution of the new EUR 500 'Dedicated to you' card has begun for households with an Isee income of less than EUR 15,000. The card can be used to purchase essential foodstuffs, fuel and local public transport subscriptions. Find out who is entitled to it and how to apply
by Andrea Carli
4' min read
Key points
- Inps clarifications
- The ten questions and answers on support
- What are the criteria for establishing the ranking lists of beneficiaries?
- How do you know if you are a recipient of support?
- Where do you pick up your card?
- If you were a beneficiary already in 2023, do you need to withdraw another card?
- What can you buy with the card?
- Is there a list of establishments where the card can be used?
- Can the grant be spent on the purchase of medicines?
- Is there a deadline by which the first purchase must be made?
- What to do in the event of lost, lost, cloned, blocked or malfunctioning card?
- What to do if I change residence?
4' min read
Monday 9 September 2024 is the day on which the distribution of the new card "Dedicated to You" starts. There are 1,330,000 households, with an Isee income of less than 15,000 euro, who will be able to collect the card, worth 500 euro, at the Post Office after receiving the communication from their municipality of residence. For card holders, who are also eligible in 2024, the amount will be recharged automatically. Citizens benefiting from other public subsidies for households are excluded from the support.
Inps Clarifications
Meanwhile, with message 2977 of 6 September, the Inps announced that the final lists of beneficiaries of the measure have been made available to municipalities. In the lists, subdivided by municipality, each beneficiary has been matched with the identification number of the card assigned by Poste Italiane. The municipalities, the social security agency further clarifies, 'will notify the beneficiaries, informing them of the allocation of the contribution, as well as, in the presence of new holders, of the procedures for collecting the cards at post offices; if, on the other hand, the beneficiary is also a recipient of the measure in the previous year, the amount due will be credited to the card already allocated previously.
Each municipality - the document published by the Inps states - 'will proceed, in compliance with current legislation on the protection of personal data, to publish, on its website, the list of card beneficiaries, with reference to its territory, in such a way as to ensure the confidentiality of the data (for example, by using the ISEE protocol number or other equally effective methods identified by the individual municipality), for a period of no less than thirty days and, in any case, until the deadline set by the same Decree to make the first payment, i.e. 16 December 2024'.
The Ten Questions and Answers on Support
Here are ten questions and answers on support. The guidance, in this case, was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry.
What are the criteria for establishing the ranking lists of beneficiaries?
The list of selected eligible beneficiaries is ordered according to the following criteria, in descending order of priority: households with no less than three members, of which at least one was born before 31 December 2010, priority is given to households with the lowest Isee indicator; households with no less than three members, of which at least one was born before 31 December 2006, priority is given to households with the lowest Isee indicator; households with no less than three members, priority is given to households with the lowest Isee indicator.


