Inps pensions, what the Constitutional Court decided
The decision of the Constitutional Court on the "cuts relating to the equalization of gross INPS pensions" (from 1540 euros / monthly / gross upwards) and on the "compulsory solidarity contribution" for gross pensions exceeding 100,000 euros / year. The intervention of Michele Poerio and Stefanio Biasioli
And voila! The Constitutional Court two days ago examined the issues of constitutional legitimacy raised by the Court of Milan and by several regional sections of the Court of Auditors (including Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Sardinia and Tuscany) in relation to the planned cuts in social security spending by Law 145/2018 (Article 1, c. 261 to 268).
In other words, “the cuts relating to the equalization of gross INPS pensions” (from 1540 euros / monthly / gross upwards) and a “compulsory solidarity contribution” for gross pensions exceeding 100,000 euros / year.
Few readers will remember that the non-revaluation was foreseen for 3 years (2019-2020-2021) while the "theft" relating to the solidarity contribution was even foreseen for 5 years (from 2019 to 2023) ie for a two-year period exceeding the duration of the three-year budget law.
These are cuts planned for the umpteenth time, that is to say a sting that has repeatedly hit the "rich retirees" in the last twenty years!
Wealthy retirees? Do you think that, today, a gross pension greater than 5 times the minimum INPS is a rich pension? Not you, but the Constitutional Court yes.
In the communiqué of 22 October, he defined them all as "high value". Rumors told us that the Court's decision was taken after a prolonged and peaceful discussion. It may have been serene, but the final decision (see the Court's press release) was “Pilates-like”.
The Court, in fact, considered "the cooling of equalization legitimate, as it is reasonable and proportionate".
Do you understand? "Reasonable and proportionate". Reasonable in the face of what? Of the amount of the gross pension or the needs of the INPS welfare holes? In proportion to what?
For obscure purposes of the use of money relating to very partial / non-revaluations, money perhaps used for citizenship income and in any case subtracted from the INPS social security budget?
But it doesn't stop there.
The statement of the Constitutional Court continues: "The solidarity contribution was also considered legitimate, but not for the five-year duration, because it was excessive compared to the three-year horizon of the state budget".
Here the Pilate attitude of the Consulta reaches its maximum.
It is obvious that an economic norm (positive and above all negative) cannot cut pensions for the two-year period that goes beyond the year 2021, given the three-year duration (2019-2020-2021) of the state budget. Obviously absurd norm. But it would not have taken the Constitutional Court to sanction it. It would have been enough for Mattarella (or whoever for him, at the Quirinale) had noticed it, to quash the cuts in the two-year period 2022-2023.
Be that as it may, this is Italy today.
An Italy in which the Constitutional Court denies itself (judgments from 2015 onwards) and in which, above all, the same Court scoffs at articles 3,36,38 and 53 of the Constitution, violating the rights of pensioners. The rights to be paid, months after months, a pension correctly accrued and certified by INPS, as per documentation in the possession of each individual pensioner.
This is Italy today.
An Italy in which citizenship income is given to "dogs and pigs" (even to prisoners, the mafia and tax evaders) and the usual suspects are massacred for the umpteenth time in 20 years. Those who cannot escape the tax authorities and the pincer of the INPS.
We, for an analytical comment on the decision, will await the sentence, which will be filed in the coming weeks.
We will analyze it calmly and then we will complete our thinking.
Quaero et non invenio, meliora tempora (Diogenes).
There will also be a judge in Berlin. Although "that judge" has so far been very close to hers.
Michele Poerio – CONFEDIR General Secretary and FEDERSPeV National President
Stefano Biasioli – Past President CONFEDIR Secretary of APS LEONIDA
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/pensioni-inps-che-cosa-ha-deciso-la-corte-costituzionale/ on Fri, 23 Oct 2020 07:51:24 +0000.