(Finance) – “We have decided to celebrate May 1st in the only way we know how: giving concrete answers to Italians and, in particular, to those Italians who roll up their sleeves every day and contribute to the wealth of our nation with their work”. This is what was stated in a live Facebook broadcast by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Recalling that on May 1st last year the government intervened to support workers with a 100 euro bonusaimed at also counteracting the effects of inflation on purchasing power, the Premier reviewed government activity over the past year and a halfwho wanted, at first, confirm the 100 euro bonus throughout 2024 with the Budget law and then, with a series of other measures, reduce the Irpef bracketseliminate the contributions paid by up to 3 thousand euros working mothers employees with two dependent children, the tax exemption of productivity bonusesthe increase in the tax threshold of fringe benefitsbut also the increase in minimum pensions.
“Everything was done with a view to redistributing wealth”said Meloni, explaining that as happened last year, “also in view of this May 1st we have chosen to continue in this direction. We have approved a decree that will allow us to add to all these measures, another provision, thanks to which we will be able to provide in January 2025 an allowance of 100 euros for single-income families of employees”.
“In the last Council of Ministers we approved another important decreevery full-bodied, which reforms cohesion policiesthat is, those policies that serve to combat the gaps, the disparities between territories, and which aim to spend European and national resources in the best way”. “We are talking about approximately 74 billion euros, of which 42 are European resources” – explained Meloni – with “the aim of fight the many gapsstarting from the infrastructural one, especially in the South“. Hence, the decision to “allocate 40% of multi-year investment funds to the South”.
“With this decree we still deal with work and we do it with a package of measures that, as part of a program that It is worth a total of over 5 billion of Eurowants to create new jobs, especially in the South”.
“The main one of these measures is exemption from paying 100% of social security contributions for two years if they are hired young people under 35who have never had permanent contracts, as long as they are hired on a stable contract”, explains the Premier, clarifying “if you hire a young person on a permanent contract, for two years you owe the State nothing within the limit of 500 euros per month “. “The exemption applies throughout Italy – he continued – in the Southern regionsHowever, the provision also applies to those over 35 who have been unemployed for at least 2 years. The tax relief applies to women, regardless of age, throughout the national territory, with greater accessibility to the benefit for women living in the Southern regions”.
Meloni then underlined that they are also expected measures for self-employment and, with a view to encouraging the growth of the South, the strengthening of the single SEZ of the South with an endowment of almost 2 billion.
“This measure is one tangible and concrete response to those who say that this government wouldn’t care about the Noon. It’s the exact opposite, we believe in it so much that we don’t want to live on subsidiesbut of work and development, finally demonstrating its value”.