Self-employed workers in the regions of Sardinia, Calabria, and Sicily who were forced to suspend their activities due to the exceptional weather events that occurred with the passage of Cyclone Harry starting January 18, 2026, will be able to access the one-off compensation provided for by Legislative Decree no. 25 of February 27, 2026.
INPS has issued a circular providing instructions on the measure, recalling that the benefit is granted for the period between January 18 and April 30, 2026, and is equal to 500 euros for each period of suspension of activity not exceeding fifteen days, up to a maximum of 3,000 euros for each beneficiary .
Applications must be submitted online by June 20, 2026. The measure is intended for coordinated and continuous collaborators, agency and commercial representative relationships, self-employed workers, professionals, and business owners enrolled in any mandatory social security and welfare scheme, residing, domiciled, or working in the municipalities identified by the emergency measure and forced to suspend work due to weather events.
The INPS explains that the beneficiaries of the measure include, among others, doctoral students, research fellows, doctors in specialist training, sales agents and representatives, artisans, traders, smallholder farmers, self-employed fishermen, professionals registered with the INPS Separate Management and professionals registered with private social security institutions .
To access the benefit, the applicant must have already started work by January 18, 2026, and be enrolled in a mandatory social security and assistance plan. INPS will subsequently verify compliance with the stated requirements, also in collaboration with other administrations. If the legal requirements are not met, the Institute will recover any amounts unduly paid. The measure is funded up to a total of €78.8 million for 2026.
