The 500 euro card dedicated to you 2024 arrives, payments from September: here’s who is entitled to it and how it works.
Distribution of the new card will begin on Monday 9 SeptemberDedicated to You‘ worth 500 euros per family unit For food, fuel or tpl subscriptions. It is announced on Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry underlining that 1,330,000 families benefit from it, with ISEE income less than 15,000 euros. There paper can be collected from post offices after receiving the communication from Municipality of residence. Citizens who benefit from other public contributions are excluded. “From the Meloni government concrete help”, said the minister Francesco Lollobrigida. This year, more resources are allocated to the initiative: 600 million which made it possible to increase the value of the card to 500 euros per family unit. For card holders who also qualify in 2024, the amount of 500 euros will be automatically recharged.
Contribution details
«The measure, explains theInpsconsists of an economic contribution per family unit for a total amount of 500 euros, paid through electronic payment cardsprepaid and rechargeable, made available by Italian Post Office through the subsidiary company Postepay. The cards, which can be assigned in a total number of 1,330,000, are delivered to those entitled at the post offices authorized for the service, are nominative and made operational with the crediting of the contribution paid starting from September 2024. The first payment must be carried out by 16 December 2024, under penalty of forfeiture of the benefit. Furthermore, the sums must be fully used no later than 28 February 2025.”
Destination of the contribution
The contribution is intended for the purchase of basic food items (such as bread, milk, meat, eggs, tuna, etc.) with the exclusion of any type of alcoholic beverage, and the purchase of fuels. As an alternative to fuel, they can be purchased with the subsidy subscriptions to local public transport services. THE’Inps by 24 July 2024, makes it available to individuals Municipalitiesthrough a specific web application, together with the operating instructions, the lists of beneficiaries in possession of the required requirements identifying the families residing in each Municipality.
Priority criteria: here’s who it’s up to
The first priority criterion refers to the age of the minors and to families with at least 3 members (family units made up of no less than three members, of which at least one was born by 31 December 2010; priority is given to units with an indicator Isee lower). Immediately thereafter, families composed of no less than three members will be favoured, of which at least one was born by 31 December 2006 (always with priority given to families withIsee lower). Finally, to families with at least three members starting from those with Isee lower regardless of minor children.
“Dedicated to you” card 2024: instructions
The 2023 budget law established a fund, increased in 2024, intended forpurchase Of basic food itemsOf fuels or, alternatively, of subscriptions to local public transport services.
The new social card “Dedicated to you” is a measure intended for families residing in Italian territory, in possession of the following requirements (interministerial decree 4 June 2024):
- registration of all family members in the municipal registry office;
- Valid ordinary ISEE certification, with an indicator not exceeding 15 thousand euros per year.
The beneficiaries do not have to submit any application, but are automatically identified among those who meet the required requirements.
The measure consists of an economic contribution per family unit of 500 eurospaid starting from September 2024 through prepaid and rechargeable electronic payment cards made available by Poste Italiane SpA. Basic food items (indicated in Annex 1 of the decree) can be purchased at participating shops.
All the details are indicated in the message 10 July 2024, n. 2575, which also illustrates the procedure for accessing the service for Municipalities via the thematic area “INPS and Municipalities”, selecting the “Services” item in the “Citizen Services” menu and then “Card dedicated to you”.