Basic income claimants will lose it if refuse job offer

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 7 - Claimants of Italy's 'citizenship wage' basic income job seeking and anti-poverty benefit will lose it if they refuse one job offer and not three as present under government reforms to the controversial benefit, Labour Undersecretary Claudio Durigon told Corriere della Sera Monday.
    The benefit will no longer be assigned on an open-ended, life basis, he added.
    Instead, it will be renewable for increasingly shorter periods and with a cheque that gets progressively smaller, said Durigon, a leading member of the League party.
    "The subsidy cannot be for life. A term beyond which you cannot go must be set, like for the (other poverty benefit) NASPI)", said Durigon.
    Giorgia Meloni's new governmet has vowed to reform the basic income, which is currently helping millions of people stave off poverty, especially in the poorer south. (ANSA).