Looking to save lives and stop the coronavirus by shutting down the nation, the Italian government told workers in March: you stay home and we will pay most of your lost wages.
FILE PHOTO: Caritas volunteers wearing face masks hand out free food to a man amid economic hardship as Italy struggles through a strict lockdown due to the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Catania, Italy, April 17, 2020.REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello/File Photo
“It is difficult. I can’t do anything,” she said by telephone from the apartment in Cogliate where she has been holed up during lockdown, struggling to survive without her paycheck of around 800 euros a month. But its notorious bureaucracy has ensured that it has been slower than others to distribute aid. Charities warn that thousands of families are slipping into poverty.
Italy’s small business subsidy requires companies to fill out a four-page document for each furloughed worker, which is first sent to the local regional government for checks before the request can be forwarded to national welfare agency INPS. “The current system is too long and does not work. We are studying how to speed it up,” he told Reuters.
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