In January 2025, employees will find an allowance of 100 euros on their paychecks. To be eligible, they must have a total income of no more than 28,000 euros, with a spouse and at least one dependent child, or for single-parent families with a single dependent child. This is foreseen by the Cohesion decree expected tomorrow in the Council of Ministers. In recent weeks, however, the drafts circulated spoke of a bonus within the thirteenth. If last year the government had waited for the anniversary of Labor Day for a specific Council of Ministers with which to launch the first cut in the tax wedge for employees up to 35 thousand euros, now in view of May 1st and on the eve of the European elections a new package arrives at work.
The text of the legislative decree, presented to the unions at Palazzo Chigi by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni together with the economic ministers, provides measures to support the employment of young people, women and some categories of disadvantaged workers. These include the reduction of social security contributions for new hires for two years. Specific provisions are also envisaged to encourage the start-up of new activities, distinct for the Centre-North and the South. The objective of the text, the government explains, is to support employment growth, the reduction of unemployment and the inactive. The line of action, it is reported, is to support those looking for a job, those hiring and those intending to start their own business, starting from the categories that are most difficult to find work today.
The reform of cohesion policies is the first of seven additions in the revision of the Pnrr approved in December by the European Commission. The reform aims to accelerate the implementation and efficiency of the European cohesion policy 2021-2027 in some strategic sectors of intervention for which there is a pre-eminent national interest in overcoming the infrastructural gaps that still exist and in increasing competitiveness and attractiveness of the South and of Italy as a whole. The reform aims to accelerate the implementation of cohesion policies which provide 75 billion euros for Italy, of which 43 billion of European resources.