There are over 157 thousand people who have been receiving an old-age (or early) pension for at least 40 years, that is, since 1984 or previous years: this data emerges from the observatories of theINPS on pensions in force on January 1, 2024 according to which they are 95,045 for the private sector and 62,034 for the public sector. In practice like a medium-sized city like Perugia and Livorno.
According to thePrivate Sector Observatory pensions with effect before 1980 are 18,717, paid when he was president in the United States Jimmy Carter and in Italy he had recently been elected Sandro PertiniThe average age at the time of payment of pensions currently still in existence with an effective date before 1980 is 52.3 years while the average monthly allowance is 1,020 euros.
For the public sector, 13,311 old-age pensions have been in force since before 1980, with an average payment of 1,607 euros per month.
If we look at the entire range of Ivs pensions (old age, social security disability and survivors) in force since 1984 or previous years between public and private there are over 549 thousand checks. Of these over 437 thousand refer to the private sector and almost 112 thousand to the public sector. However, this range also includes social security disability and survivors’ pensions that may have been paid to very young people (in the private sector for disability in the case of pensions starting before 1980 the average age of pensions still in force is just 39.46 years and 36.23 for survivors). However, social security checks and civil disabilities are not considered.
The data on old age are linked to the rules for retirement that existed in the 1980s that gave rise to the phenomenon of baby pensions. In those years, it was possible for married public employees with children of at least 14 years, six months and one day of contributions to access a pension regardless of their age.
The current cost for old-age pensions paid between the public and private sectors before 1980 is approximately 2.4 billion (number of pensioners times the average pension received) for this year. The cost over time has been very high given that for 15 years of contributions paid, checks are received for approximately 40 years. And also the squeeze that came in the following years, before the Monti Government with the Minister of Labor Oven introduced the pro rata contributory system for all, it had a long period of adjustment with the reform Dini which still allowed one to leave work in 1996 at 52 years of age and with 36 years of contributions.