In many European countries, including Spain, we are trying foster active retirement. It is a modality that allows to compatible the collection of the pension with the salary of a work activity, provided that a series of requirements are met. Now, it is important to meet these conditions to not have problems, and the case of a retiree in Italy is the clear proof of this.
Not surprisingly, 8 hours of work in a harvest have cost a whole year of pension. Yes, the National Institute of Social Security of Italy (INPS) has condemned this retiree to pay a total of 24,000 euros (the equivalent of its retirement amount for a year) for having worked when it was registered to the regime of ‘quota 100’ of the Italian pension system.
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The events occurred in September 2020 and, although it only charged 80 euros for these 8 hours harvesting, Italian Social Security sanctioned him with the return of these 24,000 euros. As the medium collects ‘Corriere Di Bologna’the retiree in 67 years, had a total of 38 years quoted. Thus, he could take advantage of the modality of ‘100’ quota, which allowed him to retire in advance, but as long as he did not work anymore, even for a salary below the threshold of 5,000 euros.
The retiree, on the other hand, failed to comply with this condition, being caught for social security. Consequently, those 8 hours of work, for which he won just over 80 euros, have been very expensive, and must now pay the equivalent of a whole year of pension (those mentioned 24,000 euros). In this situation, the retiree has decided to claim before the Court of Ravenna, through lawyer Manuel Carvello. At the moment, the judge has examined the appeal and raised a matter of constitutionality, referring everything to the Constitutional Court.
“Keep a whole year in unfair”
Apparently, according to the lawyer, there are more cases of retirees assigned to the modality of “quota 100” that have been seen in this problem. In fact, another retiree, Romano Giero, resident in the province of Cuneo, also took away a year of pension for an occasional work in the harvest.
Therefore, the lawyer Carvello explained to the aforementioned medium that “a possible sentence will undoubtedly have repercussions at the national level”, since there are many retirees who have decided to claim these returns. On one occasion, he already arrived at a cassation court, although the judges gave the reason to social security, claiming that the norm was clear.
On the other hand, for this lawyer, “this rule speaks in a generic way of the incompatibility between the ‘quota 100’ and the possibility of working. The possible sanction is not uniquely explained. There should be two options. Or subtract the remuneration received by the work to the year of the pension, or the month corresponding to the period in which that work was carried out. Subtract a whole year is unfair,” said the reason why the judge of Rávena has been determined to admit the appeal and raise a matter of unconstitutionality.