On pension That center-right have thought of something else: they want to allow those who have completed apprenticeship training to do so “redeem” the internship period, pay the contributions yourself and then factor them into your future pension calculations. These rules are found in a amendment in Maneuver presented by the troops senator from the Brothers of Italywith the first signatory being the Honorable The Life of Maria Nocco. Therefore, redemption will be burdensome for workers, as is the case currently for the degree, and also subject to strict conditions: according to the proposal, it will be possible to activate it if you have found a job within six months after the end of the internship.
In short, the law aims – under certain conditions – to expand the extracurricular internship instrument already provided during the period of study at the university, namely degree exchange. This innovation would only apply to internships that “are not subject to mandatory fees and are not already covered by fees”, the FdI senators proposed. It also provides maximum exchange period 24 months, with single payment options or up to 120 installments. The amendment also takes into account the possibility that the employer will pay redemption installments, but only formally because in reality, however, it is the employee himself who will pay by contributing the production bonus to which he is entitled.
“In this case – says the amendment – the expenses can be deducted from business and self-employment income”. In short, the employee loses the bonus, the employer loses nothing and actually gains tax benefits simply by transferring the employee’s previous internship redemption amount to INPS. The amendments propose to include among the exchangeable periods also periods spent attending training courses to obtain professional qualifications. The mechanism will be the same. However, last year Five Star Movement has put forward a similar proposal but with a completely different timeframe: five-star members are asking that notional contributions for curricular internships be recognized, at no cost to the workers, on the condition that they have a minimum of five years of service.
The Five Star Movement was actually very critical of the proposal: “This is bait, to use a phrase so dear to Prime Minister Meloni” said Senator Orfeo Mazzella: “The difficulties of young people in entering the world of work are well known: including among the requirements the obligation to find a job within six months after the end of the internship period makes this, in many cases, impracticable. But this can also be understood from the scope shown: only 2 million a year for three years. If the FdI really wants to do something concrete in terms of vote for our bill: let’s abolish the free apprenticeship program and recognize this period for retirement purposes”.
These rules are established by Italian Brothers it was drafted with the same philosophy as another similar proposal submitted at the end of the summer by Alloyand is not accepted in the budget law. The Northern League’s ideas include, for example, an obligation for young people to contribute severance pay to private pension funds. Therefore, although the proposals are different, they have the same objective: to increase the contributions paid by young people and therefore “facilitate” access to pension funds in the future. This takes into account the fact that contributory pension regulations penalize those who are slow to enter the labor market, have uncertain and discontinuous careers, and low wages.
The problem is, all these proposals still burden the younger generation themselves. In short, any proposed tool will still have to be paid for out of your own pocket. Changes to the Budget Law suggested by the Fratelli d’Italia, in fact, does not protect those with fragmented career and contribution gaps, but rather favors those with better performance. In fact, as previously mentioned, the requirement is to have found a job no later than six months after the internship period ends. Moreover, considering the high price of ransom, ransom money would only be available to those who could afford it, also thanks to the families in which they lived.
In short, the problem of access to pensions for the most vulnerable groups the labor market will remain even if all these innovations are approved. They are all spots that tend to hide the rays: the center-right’s betrayed promise to repeal the Fornero law, which in fact has actually gotten worse in recent years. The maneuver issued by the Council of Ministers confirms, in January 2027, an increase in the retirement age. This tightening will last for one month, and then increase by two more months in 2028. Only workers who work hard and burdensome jobs will be exempt from this tightening. During the internal negotiations carried out by the majority of parliamentarians that accompanied the passage of the Budget law, pressure to ease the escalation continued.
Pension article, another FdI proposal: internship can be redeemed, but at your own expense comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
