(Finance) – Applications for access to theone-off allowance for the year 2023 for cyclical part-time workers. The bonus provided for by legislative decree no. 145/2023 is equal to 550 eurosfor the year 2023 and is intended for employees of private companies holding a cyclical part-time employment contract in the year 2022. Specifically – explains theInps in a note – the allowance is recognized to employees of private companies who have held, in the year 2022, a part-time employment contract, characterized by periods not entirely worked of at least one month continuously, and overall not less than seven weeks and not more than twenty weeks, due to cyclical suspension of work performance. For the purposes of accessing the one-off allowance, the above requirement is considered satisfied if the worker – in the alternation of work and non-work periods referred to the aforementioned contract for the year 2022 – can rely on a continuous period of non-work work of at least one month and an overall period of non-work of no less than seven weeks and no more than twenty weeks.
Considering the contribution credit system envisaged for the majority of employees, the INPS specifies that for continuous period of one month means a period of time equal to four weeks (parameterised in days for insured persons of the Entertainment Workers Pension Fund for whom the credit is expressed in days). Furthermore, article 18, paragraph 2, of legislative decree no. 145/2023, provides – as a further requirement for access to the allowance – that the worker, on the date of submission of the application, is neither the holder of another employment relationship (other than the cyclical part-time one) nor the recipient of the NASpI. For the purposes of accessing the one-off allowance, the worker must not be in receipt of a direct pension at the time of submitting the application. The one-off allowance, therefore, is incompatible with the direct pensions paid, even pro quota, by the compulsory general insurance (AGO) and the exclusive, replacement, exemptive and supplementary forms of the same, and the social security forms compatible with the AGO , of the separate management referred to in article 2, paragraph 26, of law 8 August 1995, n. 335, of the social security institutions referred to in the legislative decree of 30 June 1994, n. 509, and the legislative decree of 10 February 1996, n. 103, as well as with the indemnity referred to in article 1, paragraph 179, of law 11 December 2016, n. 232, and subsequent amendments (so-called social APE).
The one-off allowance for the year 2023 can be recognized only once to each entitled person and is paid by INPS upon submission of the application.
In the same time window (13 November – 15 December 2023) it is possible to submit the application for theone-off allowance for the year 2022, recognized to workers who held a part-time employment contract in 2021 characterized by periods not entirely worked of at least one month continuously and in total not less than seven weeks and not more than twenty weeks, due to cyclical suspension of the work performance, and who can assert the further requirements provided for by article 2-bis of the Aid decree.
They will have to submit both applications (for the year 2022 and for the year 2023) those who had not previously submitted any. However, only those who had already submitted the application for the year 2022 will have to submit the application for the year 2023 regardless of the outcome of the same. In fact, for those who have submitted an application for 2022, and this has been rejected, the possibility of proposing a review has been provided for and it is therefore not possible to submit a new application. In the event that INPS detects the presence of an application for the same allowance referring to the year 2022, the applications for the allowance referring to the year 2023 will be made available with the pre-compiled data.