The first (and last) five years of the Citizenship Income scheme in Tuscany

The Citizenship Income (Rdc) is now a thing of the past in our country. For over a year, since January 2024 to be precise, the measure has been replaced by the Inclusion Allowance. Introduced by Legislative Decree 4/2019 by the government in office at the time, the Rdc was in force for five years, from March 2019 to December 2023, exceptional years in which a pandemic broke out and triggered a wave of inflation not seen since the 1980s. Given the importance of the Rdc in recent years, primarily in terms of the resources mobilised (almost €2 billion in total in Tuscany) and given the heated debate that arose first from its introduction and then from its abolition, it is useful to analyse what this experience has actually meant for our region, in particular what the Rdc has been able to achieve but also what it has not been able to achieve. The data currently available for Tuscany, samples from ISTAT and administrative data from INPS, allow us to carry out the analysis both from a historical perspective and in a longitudinal sense.

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