Pensions, from age increase to women's option and quota 103: the hypotheses in the manoeuvre

"Selective sterilisation". With this formula, responding to questions from parliamentarians at a hearing on the Dpfp, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti announced an intervention on the adjustment of the retirement age in the varied menu of the next Budget law. He then explained in more detail that "there are not the more fortunate and the less fortunate, but there are the more deserving and the less deserving. I believe that usurious and precocious workers should be treated differently".

According to the earliest reports, the stop to the three-month increase in social security requirements for the linkage to life expectancy promises to arrive in a lightened form: the brake will be multiannual, removing only part of the increase (probably one month) in 2027 and another in 2028, and will not affect everyone, focusing on certain categories of workers deemed more 'deserving' of protection.

The knot, once again, is represented by the coverage, since the solution must be found with the end-of-year manoeuvre. According to the first calculations of the government and Inps technicians, the increase in pension requirements is estimated at more than 2 billion euro over the two-year period 2027-28, and about 3 billion at full regime. With the 'stake' of 64 years, the cost would be reduced, the first rumours speak of 1.5 billion over the two-year period and about 2 billion at full regime.

Therefore, according to this hypothesis, which is still being evaluated within the government, there would be a three-month freeze on old age pensions in 2027 and people would retire at the age of 67 instead of 67 years and three months. In addition, an age criterion would be introduced to freeze the three-month step for early retirement: in practice, men who have reached 42 years and 10 months of contributions and women who have reached 41 years and 10 months, but have not reached the age of 64, would not benefit from the three-month freeze for early retirement and would have to wait until they are 43 years and one month old (men) and 42 years and one month old (women) for early retirement.

At the same time, there is a move towards a new extension of Opzione donna, Quota 103 and Ape sociale. Among the hypotheses is also the provision of another six-month period of silence-absence for joining the complementary pension scheme. In this case, the proposal - reads the explanatory memorandum - provides that workers will have to express explicitly whether to keep their severance pay (Tfr) in the company, in line with what was already provided for in the first half of 2007; in the absence of such an option on the part of the worker, the Tfr will be conferred on the complementary pension scheme identified.