The INPS, by circular no. 48, published March 14, 2016, announces the CIG maximum amounts, mobility and unemployment and other support policies for 2016 and precisely:

•  income support treatments (temporary layoffs and CIGS);
•  ordinary allowance and the allowance for the emergency credit fund;
•  emergency grant to the Fund of cooperative credit;
•  mobility;
•  special unemployment benefits for the building;
•  Naspi of unemployment benefits;
•  unemployment benefits DIS-COLL;
•  check for socially useful activities.

In the past, Legislative Decree no. 148/2015 stated that with effect from 1 January of each year, starting from 2016, the amounts for the support policies treatments listed above “Roof” of the salary supplement treatments (as well as the monthly salary of reference) have increased in 100% amount of the increase resulting from the annual change in ISTAT’s consumer price index for families of workers and employees.

For example, the maximum monthly amounts of salary supplement treatments are, for 2016, amounting to EUR 971.71 if the monthly salary of reference for the calculation of the treatment is equal to or less than € 2102.24, or 1167.91 if exceed the threshold. INPS also precises that for this treatments should be made a withholding tax charged the employee of 5.84% .

For the construction and stone industry, those amounts are increased by 20%. Instead, for those workers who are entitled to the special unemployment benefits for the building as guaranteed by Law 427/75, the amount is € 635.34.

Still, with regard to the mobility allowance, the amounts for this year amounted to EUR 971.71, with equal pay or less than € 2102.24, or 1167.91 EUR, with earnings above this amount. The net amounts of reduction of 5.84%, are, respectively, amounting to EUR 914.96 and EUR 1099.70. Finally, for the health benefits of hose reels and DIS-COLL, INPS points out that for 2016 the maximum monthly amount is 1,300 Euros and it’s not applied the reduction of 5.84%.