(Finance) – A report from the study centre Social security itineraries highlighted that the expense welfare in Italy in 2022 it reached 157 billion with an increase of 126% in 10 years. In that year we spent on healthcare, pensions And assistance 559.5 billion, an increase of 6.2% compared to the previous year. The expense for social benefits it absorbed over half of the total public share, 51.65%. Compared to 2012, and therefore over the course of a decade, overall welfare spending increased by 127.5 billion structural (+29.4%).
The increase – explained the report – is mainly attributable to charges welfare at the expense of taxation generalwhich grew by 126.3% compared to +17% for social security spending and +18% of our Product Internal Gross. “It is a framework – we read – which draws attention once again to the need to separate social security and assistance, containing the latter more”.
Pensioners will increase in 2022 but employed people will grow more rapidly: the Italian social security system is sustainable but it is necessary to “place a limit on too many exceptions to Monti-Fornero reform and the excessive mix between social security and assistance witnessed in recent years”, underlines the study now in its eleventh edition which underlines the importance of “adequately addressing the transition demographic ongoing and, in particular, the aging of the workforce”.
In 2022 the number of pensioners rises to 16.131 million (+32,666 units). After the strong crisis caused by Covid, the sharp rise in the rate continues occupation Italian, which in the year of the survey reached 60.1%, although remaining among the lowest in Europe, rose up to 1.4443, the ratio busy And pensioners, improving but still far from pre-pandemic values (1.4578). “The semi-safety threshold of 1.5 is still far away – we read in the study – but, overall, the system holds up and will continue to do so, provided we are able to make – in an aging country – prudent choices on policies active for work, advances and retirement age”.