INPS, double the number of disability pensions in the South compared to the North

ROME – Contradictions of Italy. According to theINPS observatory on pensions In the North there’s a higher number of pensions per inhabitant than in the South but if you look at the performance of the civilian invalids The Noon it is the area with the highest incidence with 77.4 checks per thousand residentsalmost the double compared to the North (39.4). Instead, they are an intermediate figure – equal to 58.2 – in the Center.

In the South, one pension in four is disability

Again according to the INPS Observatory on pensions (excluding public ones) looking at raw retirement coefficient (number of pensions per thousand residents) we observe that In the North, 311.0 per thousand were recordedto the, Center 292.5 per thousand and in the South 275.6 per thousand. Practically over one pension in 4 in the South (28%) is disability.

The total pensions in Italy

The pensions in force at the beginning of 2024 in the private sector, excluding journalists, are 17,775,766, 76.7% of which are of a social security nature, i.e. paid following the payment of contributions. Welfare pensionsor provided to support situations of disability or economic hardship (benefits for disabled civilians including accompanying allowances and pensions and social allowances). I am 4,142,774 (23.3%) of a welfare nature. According to the INPS Observatory on pensions the total annual amount for these pensions is equal to 248.7 billionof euros of which 222.8 billion supported by social security management and 25.9 billion by welfare management.

In the In 2023, 1,364,686 pensions were paid, of which 48.6% (663,705) were of a welfare nature. The annualized amounts allocated for the new payments in 2023 amount to 14.3 billion euros. The percentage of welfare on the total was 46.5% in 2022 but the difference compared to 20 years earlier, in 2003 is 11 points.