“The national management of the Inapi patronage, National Institute for the Assistance of Small Businesses, met with the Committee for the Early Retirement of Traders’ Compensation and after listening to the reasons behind their request, as well as their complaint against the government that does not put an end to a distortion present in the past budget maneuver, decided to fully support and endorse the request to extend the concession of compensation for cessation of activity also for those who have been paradoxically excluded, by an erroneous and absurd interpretation of Inps circular number 77”. This is what is written in a note from Inapi. “The traders’ compensation, already provided for by law 207/1996, initially a temporary measure, was extended – it explains – over the years to stop at the end of 2016, as in 2017 there was no extension. Then, the 2019 stability law (paragraph 283, law 145/2018) made the compensation definitive, but starting from 2019, inserting a constraint that could not fail to jump out at the eyes of aspiring recipients of the benefit. The same, despite having paid the due amount for years into the appropriate fund, today find themselves, unlike their protected colleagues, outside the welfare measure because they had the misfortune of closing their business between 2017 and 2018”.
“The crux of the debate – warns the patronage – lies precisely in the illogical interpretation that the aforementioned INPS circular gives of the text of the law, providing that the measure can only be used by 'those who cease their activity as of January 1, 2019'. The text of the law specifies only that the compensation is expected 'as of January 2019, XNUMX', without, unfortunately, specifying any retroactivity. Leaving in limbo, without income from work or compensation, precisely those who had the misfortune of closing their activity in the previous two years. In light of this regulatory reconstruction, we feel it is our duty to support the cause brought forward by the 'Comitato esodati indennizzo rivenditori' (Committee for early retirees for compensation for traders) which has been asking for a solution to this issue for some time now, as soon as possible". "The risk - says Domenico Cosentino, president of the Inapi patronage - otherwise is once again to create inequalities within the same category of workers, some lucky ones will receive compensation, first-class citizens, and others, despite having paid a quota to the same fund over the years of activity, precisely to protect themselves in the event of a cessation of activity, find themselves absurdly without protection, becoming second-class citizens". The measure, traders claim, "has become structural, but we are the only two-year period that cannot benefit from it, since in previous years it has always been extended retroactively".
“It is also worth remembering that the compensation has always been supported by a percentage increase in contributions (0.09%) paid by all traders, including us, in the years prior to our closure,” he adds. “We trust – underlines President Cosentino – that this paradox will be remedied and that the right dignity will be restored to those who are over 62 if men and over 57 if women and who are registered, at the time of cessation of activity, for at least 5 years, as owners or assistants, in the management of contributions and social security benefits of commercial activity operators, so that the compensation can accompany all traders, already tested by the end of their activity, to the retirement age provided for by law.”
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