Inclusion allowance, green light for decrees on service networks and caretaking
The Unified Conference reached agreement on two measures implementing the economic support measure that started on 1 January
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At its 16 May session, the Unified Conference gave the go-ahead to two decrees of the Ministry of Labour implementing the inclusion allowance, the subsidies that from 1 January 2024 took the place of the old citizenship income. The new measure of economic support and social and labour inclusion is granted to families with an Isee up to EUR 9,360 and who have at least one disabled member, or minor, or at least 60 years of age, or in a disadvantaged condition and included in a care and assistance programme of the territorial social and health services. As of March 2024 there were 589,291 households benefiting from the benefit (for a total number of 1,240,584 members), compared to a total number of 737,000 households.
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Service Networks
.The two decrees that received the green light from the Unified Conference concern the guidelines for the construction of networks of services related to the implementation of the Inclusion Allowance (Article 6, paragraph 10 of Decree-Law 48/2023) and the guidelines on the elements that form the basis of the integrated social care and the customised project to assess the conditions of disadvantage aimed at accessing the allowance (Article 4, paragraph 7 of Decree-Law 48/2023).
As for the service networks, the guidelines prepared by the Ministry of Labour outline in 52 pages the forms of collaboration between all the institutional levels involved in the social and labour inclusion paths of the beneficiaries of the inclusion allowance. With regard to the manager of the intervention network aimed at implementing the ADI in the territory, that is, the node that assumes the function of activating the network and making it work, the guidelines suggest that this function should be the responsibility of the Professional Social Service (i.e. the planning offices of the social territorial ambits), possibly managed at the associated level of the territorial ambit.
Another point concerns cooperation in the territory between public administrations and Third Sector entities, suggested by the guidelines through the new mechanisms of co-planning and co-planning regulated by Article 55 of the Third Sector Code (Legislative Decree 117/2017).
