Do you go to quarantine? You pay for it. INPS will neither cover nor pay salaries

Does the doctor send you to quarantine because you have had a suspicious contact? Unfortunately you have to pay for everything yourself and you will not take a salary.

As the INPS points out in communication 2841 of 6/8, very trivially, there is no money to pay for the quarantines, because they have not been allocated. Therefore, INPS warns employers: any quarantine periods, which have been recognized as "illness" (as was possible up to 31 December), are considered undue and reimbursement will be requested for any allowances paid to employees.

The "quarantine" with active surveillance, such as that in the Covid Hotels, can still be reimbursed for 2020, but only within the limit of the appropriations of 663 million and for 2020. As already mentioned, in 2021 nothing.

So what is left to those who go into quarantine, and certainly not through their fault, to obtain some funds?

• the "Disabled quarantine", or "Fragile", provided for by article 26 c 2 of the Italian treatment, which equates quarantine to hospitalization, when the so-called "Agile work" is not possible for those who have a certified situation of discomfort, such as, for example, a recognized disability or a health risk situation. This chapter received an allocation of 282 million in 2021, so it is possible to use it, but only until 30 June 2021, given the small budget. The ability to use agile work has been extended to October 31, 2021;
• l "Covid disease", seeing quarantine equated to a recognized disease when possible, a solution for which the Ministry of Labor has left a free hand.

In a couple of months we will see how INPS and the Government will behave in the face of the new emergency.

The "Covid disease".

The third and final hypothesis of protection is the "Covid disease" which the Cura Italia decree (art. 26, paragraph 3) has established that it is equated to ordinary disease. The INPS specifies that the indications of the Ministry of Labor

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