Isee, in 2024 fewer applications and increasing value

In 2024, 10,822 unique substitutive declarations (Dsu - the document from which the Isee is drawn up) were submitted, corresponding to 9,295,000 households and 26,505,000 people. For the first time since 2015, when the indicator of the equivalent economic situation was reformed, there was a drop in declarations, amounting to 500,000 compared to the previous year. This is the figure that emerges from the Indicator Monitoring Report referring to 2024 and published by the Ministry of Labour on 24 April 2026.

According to the report, the decrease is partly due to the shift from citizenship income to inclusion allowance and training and employment support, resulting in a narrowing of the beneficiary audiences, and partly due to the reduction in the number of Dsus replicated. Since the declaration is valid for the entire calendar year in which it is submitted, if there is no change in the household, there is no need to request a further declaration.

However, since the 2015 reform, there has been a phenomenon of repetitions, which has reached 20% of the total in the years immediately following, before falling to 13.5% in 2024. A phenomenon that occurs particularly in the thirty days following the submission of the first Dsu. The decrease in the number of replicas may perhaps suggest a greater familiarity of applicants with the procedures and rules developed over the years.

On the other hand, the number of citizens who independently apply for the Isee through the Inps website is growing: from slightly less than 2% of total applications in 2015, it has risen to 15%, with a 20% growth between 2024 and 2023. All the others pass through the Caf, while the applications made directly to the service provider for which the Isee is required remain residual (less than 0.1%).

The 'new' indicator confirms the ability to bring out undeclared assets. Whereas, before the reform, households declaring no securities assets had reached almost 80%, in 2015 the share dropped to just over 10% and then fell further, rising again in 2020-21 and then falling back to 3.9% in 2024.