Race to the mothers' bonus for 870,000 working women with at least two children
There is time until 9 December to apply to the Inps for aid of up to €480 for employees and self-employed women, to be paid in 2025
Key points
The race is on for the €480 bonus for 870,000 working mothers. There is one month, until 9 December, to apply for the aid through the Inps portal. According to the technical report to Decree Law 95/2025, which governed the application of the benefit for this year, the potential recipients are 695 thousand female employees (fixed-term or permanent) and approximately 175 thousand self-employed workers. On the other hand, 175,585 mothers of three or more children are recipients of the old decontribution: the latter, however, do not have to submit any application, because the benefit (up to EUR 3,000 per year) is recognised directly in the pay packet (for profiles, see the sheets on the page).
The requirements
In order to apply for the so-called bonus mamme, it is necessary to be an employee with a fixed-term or open-ended contract, or to be a self-employed, registered with compulsory social security schemes, including professional pension funds and the separate INPS management scheme. Workers in the domestic sector are excluded, by explicit legal provision: those counted by the Inps are a good 726,589 (with a clear prevalence of foreign women: workers of Italian nationality account for 31% of the sector).
To claim the bonus, you must be a mother of two children, with the youngest under the age of 10, or three or more children, with the youngest under the age of 18. Finally, there is an economic requirement: the sum of employment income relevant for calculating 2025 taxes must not exceed 40,000 euro.
The question
The bonus for working mothers is worth 40 euros per month and is a sum of money that is not taxable for tax and social security purposes. The monthly payments due from January to November (for those who have worked the entire year), will be paid in a lump sum in December into the beneficiary's bank account, together with the amount for the last month of the year. As clarified by the Inps in Circular 139/2025 of 28 October, applications must be submitted to the institute electronically by 9 December for disbursement within the year. Female workers who meet the requirements after this date (for example, because their second child will be born between 9 and 31 December) may submit the application by 31 January 2026, and the bonus will be disbursed by February 2026.
To access the compilation (the service is already up and running on the Inps site) the worker must identify herself through Spid level 2, or electronic identity card, national services card or eIDAS. You can also contact the Inps contact centre or a patronage.
