Loading ...Italians Who Refuse Job Offers Will Have Social Benefits Revoked, Meloni Warns
Italians on unemployment benefits who turn down reasonable job offers will have their access to social security payments revoked in new laws expected to be introduced by Giorgia Meloni’s new administration.
In a pledge to clamp down on a relief scheme that Meloni claims rewards laziness and is widely abused, the new Italian prime minister vowed to amend the citizens’ income available across the country, making it conditional upon those who receive job offers while receiving the benefit to take the position.
As Meloni announced her first budget on Tuesday, she claimed it was wrong “to put people who can work on the same level as those that can’t.”
“Faithful to our principles, we’ll keep helping those who can’t work. For the others it will be abolished,” she added.