INPS cuts services to vulnerable people, "dismantles territorial welfare" and leaves everything in the hands of the Municipalities, "without transferring a single euro".
The alarm comes from the Municipality of Loceri, which speaks of "silent abandonment of the most vulnerable people in the community". The cuts to the welfare system, the Municipality explains, are emerging with the new Inps Home Care Premium 2025-2028 call.
A "dramatic break with the past", the "disappearance of vital services that formed the backbone of the previous system". An axe blow that falls on professional home care ("the interventions of the Oss have been eliminated"), on caregivers ("those who assist non-self-sufficient family members are condemned to a care prison without breaks or support"), on mobility ("assisted transport services have been eliminated") and on day centers, eliminating support for accessing "fundamental facilities against loneliness and social exclusion of fragile people".
"It's not a reorganization, it's an abdication of responsibility," thunders Mayor Gianfranco Lecca. "Inps actually transfers the burden of guaranteeing constitutional rights to the Municipalities, without transferring a single euro, an accounting sleight of hand that transforms the needs of the weakest into chasms in the already bloodless municipal budgets."
The concern, explains the Municipality, "crosses the entire Island and calls upon the Region to intervene with the INPS". Because the risk is that of a "dramatic step backwards in the civilization of assistance, with devastating consequences" for the most fragile.
Municipalities will be "forced to choose between abandoning the most vulnerable citizens and financial ruin", social services will be "crushed by growing demands" and families "abandoned to their fate".
"We will not bow our heads," concludes the mayor, announcing the intention to "build territorial alliances that can make the voices of those who have no voice heard and defend a welfare model that leaves no one behind."
