Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale

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The Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS) ( German National Institute for Social Welfare - NISF ) is the most important social security institution in Italy .

Tasks and organization

There are only a few special professional groups , parts of the public service and victims of occupational accidents in Italy. INPS must all employees of the private sector and a large proportion of self-employed to be insured. From the discharged total social security contributions are pension payments of various kinds, unemployment benefits and sickness benefits paid to different services come to the basic security .

Employees must be registered with the INPS by their employer and those who become self-employed must register with an INPS branch no later than 30 days after starting business. The INPS is working to combat illegal employment , the tax and benefit fraud closely with the tax authorities Agenzia delle Entrate and Guardia di Finanza together.

The INPS is headquartered in Rome . There are regional directorates in all 20 Italian regions ; the branches in the provinces and their branches are subordinate to these .

history

Inscription above the portal of the INPS building in Bolzano , erected in 1938 , with the fascist "F" in the middle, removed after 1945 but still visible in the imprint

In 1898, the Cassa Nazionale per le Assicurazioni Sociali (CNAS), the German National Social Insurance Fund, was founded. At that time, only workers could voluntarily insure themselves against occupational disability and old age, with employers and the state also making a contribution. Both insurances became compulsory in 1919 . In 1933 the name was changed to Istituto Nazionale Fascista per la Previdenza Sociale and the social insurance was gradually expanded. In 1943 the name “ Fascista ” was dropped , but the expansion of the institute continued in the decades that followed. In the 1990s, there were far-reaching organizational reforms, with a number of smaller and specialized social insurance providers being taken over by the INPS. In addition, relatively generous retirement and social benefits were gradually reduced. Due to the demographic and economic development of Italy, the pay-as-you-go system leads to deficits in social security, which have to be compensated by subsidies from tax revenues.

photos

Palazzo Wedekind in Rome, seat of the INPS management
INPS administrative headquarters in the Roman district of EUR
INPS branch in Prato

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The official German-language name in South Tyrol is the state institution for social provision , but the agency itself and the population refer to it as the National Institute for Social Welfare Quelle , p. 5
↑ Execute to the building. Hannes Obermair , Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (eds.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 , p. 90-93 .

[1] The official German-language name in South Tyrol is the state institution for social provision , but the agency itself and the population refer to it as the National Institute for Social Welfare Quelle , p. 5

[2] Execute to the building. Hannes Obermair , Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (eds.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 , p. 90-93 .