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.
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