Recipients of the government's
planned basic income who cheat on the job seekers' allowance
will get six years in jail, the architect of the plan, Deputy
Premier Luigi Di Maio, said Thursday.
The 780-euro-a-month benefit "doesn't give a single euro to
those who sit on their sofas, because they'll have their whole
days full of training and socially useful work and they won't
have the time to work in the black (economy) and if they cheat
they'll get six years in jail for unlawful statements," said the
leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.
Di Maio, who is also labour and industry minister, told the
Senate question-time session that he had inserted "a series of
measures that will combat cheats".
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