Terms of bonus for working mothers this will be done directly by INPS, but access requirements require precise income information and estimates to avoid exclusion or withdrawal of benefits.
Employers can provide necessary information to female employees on conditions and deadlines to submit an application. They can also collaborate – if the worker has no other relationship – in estimating the estimated income for 2025, useful for verifying compliance with the limit of 40 thousand euros per year.
These calculations, based on salary items and work calendars, do not yield results direct responsibility for the company but is a good management practice: information support that guarantees transparency and truth.
In fact, exceeding the upper limit of 40 thousand euros per year means requiring it decadence from the benefits e recovery of that amount received by workers, even though until now INPS has not provided any indication of the possibility of recovery. Therefore, it is appropriate for consultants and human resources offices to warn female workers about this risk resulting from accumulated earnings, overtime or new relationships that may cause the threshold to be exceeded (possibly by circulars to be distributed within the company).
Contributions earmarked for working mothers – 40 euros for each month or a fraction of a month’s activity in 2025 – are also paid in case early termination such relationship, but only pro rata for months of actual employment. In these circumstances, the employer can provide an indication of the useful life for calculation purposes, thereby facilitating the completion of the application.
