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4.1 SOCIAL SECURITY TREATMENT

  1. Old age pension
  2. Seniority pension
  3. Pension to survivors
  4. Inability pension
  5. Contributive old age pension
  6. Un-employment bonus

Article 38 of the Italian Constitution provides that adequate measures are insured to Italian workers for life exigencies in case of accidents, sickness, invalidity, old age and involuntary unemployment. Foreigners are treated the same as Italian by law. According to cases there are:

4.1.1 OLD AGE PENSION

On reaching pension age (65 for men, 60 for women); when a certain contributive period has been reached (20 years); when dependant work relation ends; in these cases one has a right to claim an old age pension. Exceptions are: usurious jobs, blind workers...

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4.1.2 SENIORITY PENSION

All workers who reach the minimum required contributive seniority (35 years), along with a certain anagraphical age (that ranges from 52 to 57) have the right to this pension. Also workers who independently from their age have reached a determined contributive seniority (that ranges from 35 to 40 years) have right to this pension.

In any case working activity must end.

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4.1.3 PENSION TO SURVIVORS

Survivor family members of person already recieving a pension have right to obtain pension (or who at the moment of death had obtained relative right).

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4.1.4 INABILITY PENSION

In order to obtain pension, unable person is that worker who for a physical or mental defect is in the absolute and permanent impossibility of carrying out any working activity. If working ability is reduced to at least 1/3, relative to occupations adapted to one's capacity, person has right to a disability cheque. The latter, not being a pension, is not reversible to survivors.

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4.1.5 CONTRIBUTIVE OLD AGE PENSION

It is the new system to calculate pensions, that substitutes old age pension and seniority pensions for those who started employment after the 1st of January 1996. It is determined on the base of contributive payments; minimum age for all is 57 (men and women), with at least 35 years contributions paid. Who, reaching these requisites, continues working activity, shall enjoy a higher pension.

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4.1.6 UN-EMPLOYMENT BONUS

Worker who has 2 years compulsory insurance and 1 year contribution in the preceding two years, who has a residual working capacity and who presents request to INPS within 60 days from beginning of unemployment, has right to bonus.

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