- Access the online services
- Tax fulfilments
- Hiring and collaborations
- Databases and lists of workers
- Contributions
- Delegations and forms
- Disability and incapacity
- Unemployment, suspension from work and workers' protection
- Special allowances for strenuous or risky jobs, volunteering and blood and marrow donation
- Funds and category pension schemes enrolment
- Domestic work
- Migrant work
- Illness, assistance, treatment and stays
- Maternity, paternity and marriage leave
- Maternity allowance of the Municipalities
- State maternity allowance
- Childbirth Allowance (Baby Bonus)
- Allowance for marriage leave
- COVID-19 emergency baby-sitting bonus
- Stork Bonus - Economic contribution for birth or adoption (IPOST Fund Scheme)
- Paternity leave (birth, adoption or foster care of a child)
- Contribution for the reimbursement of nurseries expenses (IPOST Fund Scheme)
- Maternity/paternity allowance for self-employed workers
- Allowance for parental leave for male and female dependent workers enrolled in the Separate Pension Scheme
- Parental leave allowance for self-employed workers
- Allowance for parental leave for male and female dependent workers
- Allowance for parental leave for dependent workers enrolled in the Separate Pension Scheme
- Allowance for daily “nursing” rest periods for employed mothers and fathers
- Childbirth bonus - € 800
- Online submission of certificates of pregnancy and interruption
- Maternity / paternity allowance for workers enrolled in Separate Pension Scheme (Gestione Separata)
- Pensions
- Portals and other specialised tools
- Income and assets
- Tax relief, deductions and reduction of penalties
- Support for survivors
- Economic and study support
- Privacy
What is it?+
The basic maternity allowance, also called the "maternity allowance of the municipalities", is a welfare benefit granted by the municipalities and paid by the INPS (Article 74 of Italian Legislative Decree No. 51 of 26 March 2001).
Who is it aimed at?+
The right to the allowance, in the case of birth, adoption or pre-adoptive foster care, concerns Italian residents, EU citizens or foreigners who hold a residence permit (to see which specific type of residence permit is deemed useful for granting the benefit please contact your municipality of residence). The allowance is due only within certain income limits.
Applicants must not have any social security coverage or must have it within a certain amount set annually. Furthermore, they must not already be beneficiaries of another INPS maternity allowance pursuant to Law No. 488 of 23 December 1999.
How does it work?+
The claim must be submitted to the municipality of residence which is responsible for verifying that all legal requirements for the granting of the services have been met (Articles 17 and following of the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 21 December, 2000), within six months of the birth of the child or from the actual entry into the family of the minor who has been adopted or is under pre-adoptive foster care.
The allowance cannot be combined with other social security benefits, except if you are entitled to receive the differential amount from the municipality.
The amount of the allowance is re-adjusted each year for families of workers and dependent workers based on changes in the ISTAT consumer price index. Every year the Institute publishes the amount in the circular on conventional average wages.