Civil servants to receive their severance pay immediately from 2030: here’s what’s changing and when
The initial nine-month suspension will be reduced by three months each year, until it is phased out completely from 2030
The changes in the 2027 budget for those leaving the workforce also affect the civil service. But they are a positive development. In the budget, the civil service faces another year of 75 per cent staff turnover, but is finally moving towards a resolution to the long wait experienced so far between the last day at work and the receipt of severance pay in instalments.
What’s new for the TFS
The initial nine-month suspension will be reduced by three months each year, until it is phased out entirely from 2030, when the maximum amount of the first instalment will begin to rise by 10,000 euros a year, with the aim of fully realigning with the private sector by 2035, when people retire upon reaching the age limit. The exit strategy from the scheme – which was rejected by the Constitutional Court – will therefore last nine years, in order to manage the estimated cost of over 16 billion, as calculated by INPS, for phasing out the instalments.
A cap on salary increases for judges
Still on the subject of the civil service, as reported by *Il Sole 24 Ore*, the budget bill includes a provision to curb spending on salary adjustments for magistrates: the 979 million in arrears will be paid, but in future, pay rises will once again be linked to the weighted average of pay increases across the rest of the civil service, reinstating the criterion previously rejected by the administrative courts.
