Inclusion allowance (ADI)

The ADI is paid monthly for a continuous period not exceeding 18 months and may be renewed, upon claim, for further periods of 12 months.

Law No. 199 of 30 December 2025 (2026 Budget Law) removes the provision for a one-month suspension period between the end of the initial 18- or 12-month period and the submission of a renewal claim.

The amount of the first monthly payment following renewal is set at 50 per cent of the monthly amount of the renewed benefit.

The benefit is paid monthly onto an electronic payment card (Inclusion Card or ADI Card).

The amount due for the family income supplement may be split, upon request, either when the claim is submitted or at a later date, amongst each adult member of the household who fulfils parental responsibilities or is included in the ADI equivalence scale, with each person receiving their pro-rata share.

Schedule of payments
The payment schedule for ADI claims, where the preliminary assessment has been successful and the household has signed the Digital Activation Pact, as well as for any outstanding monthly payments due, is set out in Message No. 214 of 22 January 2026 (in Italian).

As a general rule, payments for the first instalments and any arrears are made around the 15th of the month, whilst payments for subsequent instalments are made around the 27th of the month.

With regard to the procedures for submitting and processing payments for renewal claims, in light of the amendments provided for by Law No. 199 of 30 December 2025 (the 2026 Budget Law), please refer to Message No. 640 of 23 February 2026 (in Italian) and Message No. 2437 of 22 July 2026 (in Italian).

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Claimants for the ADI must meet the requirements set out in more detail below for the entire period during which the allowance is paid.

Citizenship, stay and residence requirements

The claimant must be, alternatively:

• an Italian citizen or his/her family member who holds the right of residence or the right of permanent residence;
• a citizen of another country of the European Union or his/her family member who holds the right of residence or the right of permanent residence;
• a third-country national holding an EU residence permit for long-term residents;
• a holder of the international protection status referred to in Legislative Decree No. 251 of 19 November 2007 or of the status of stateless person.

The claimant, at the time of submitting the claim, must have been a resident in Italy for at least five years, of which the last two on an ongoing basis.

Continuity of residence is considered interrupted in the event of absence from the Italian territory for a period of two consecutive months or more, or in the event of absence from the Italian territory within 18 months for a period of four months or more, even if not continuous. Absences for serious and documented health reasons do not interrupt the continuity of the period, even if they exceed the above limits.

The residence requirement at the time of claim and throughout the duration of the benefit is extended to the members of the family unit benefiting from the measure.

Economic requirements

The claimant’s family unit must meet the following economic requirements:

• a valid ISEE value not exceeding €10,140;
• a value of family income* of less than a threshold of €6,500 per year, multiplied by the corresponding parameter of the ADI equivalence scale. If the family unit is made up of persons all aged 67 or over, or persons aged 67 or over and other family members all with severe disability or not self-sufficient, the family income threshold is set at €8,190 per year, multiplied according to the same equivalence scale;
• a value of family income of less than €10,140 in cases where the family unit resides in a rented dwelling, as shown in the DSU (Single Substitute Statement) made for the purposes of the ISEE (Equivalent economic situation indicator);
• real estate assets in Italy and abroad (as defined for the purposes of the ISEE) not exceeding 30,000 euro, other than the residence with an IMU Property Tax value not exceeding 150,000 euro;
• movable assets (e.g. deposits, current accounts, etc.) as defined for the purposes of the ISEE not exceeding:
  • 6,000 euro for units composed of a single member;
  • 8,000 euro for units composed of two members;
  • 10,000 euro for units composed of three or more members (threshold increased by 1,000 euro for each child, starting from the third).

  These ceilings are increased by:

  • 5,000 euro for each member with disabilities;
  • 7,500 euro for each member present in the family unit in a condition of severe disability or who is not self-sufficient, as defined for ISEE purposes;

• not having in the family unit any member who is the owner in any capacity or has full availability of:
  • vehicles with a cylinder capacity exceeding 1600 cc or motorcycles with a cylinder capacity exceeding 250 cc, registered for the first time in the 36 months prior to the claim, excluding vehicles and motorcycles for which there is a tax relief for persons with disabilities;
  • vessels or pleasure boats pursuant to Article 3, paragraph 1 of the Pleasure Boating Code, referred to in Legislative Decree No. 171 of 18 July 2005, as well as aircraft of any kind.

* The welfare benefits included in the ISEE are deducted from the family income and all those currently enjoyed are added, with the exception of those received due to the condition of disability and those not subjected to the means test. Any income and assets not included in the ISEE are declared at the time of claiming the benefit and assessed for this purpose. The family income includes direct and indirect pensions currently paid to the members of the family unit, with effect after the reference period of the currently valid ISEE, without prejudice to the provisions of Italian Council of Ministers Presidential Decree no. 159/2013 on current ISEE. In the calculation of family income, any amount received as part of the Inclusion Allowance, the Citizens’ Income or any other national or regional anti-poverty measure is excluded. Remuneration for amateur sporting activities, which, pursuant to art. 36, paragraph 6, of Legislative Decree No. 36/2021, does not constitute a taxable base up to a total annual amount of 15,000 euro, is included in the value of the family income for the purpose of assessing the economic situation of the family unit.

Additional requirements (precautionary measures, preventive measures, convictions, resignation, totally publicly funded facilities and right and obligation to education):

• not being subject to a personal precautionary measure, to a preventive measure, and not have final convictions or adopted pursuant to Article 444 of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, occurred in the ten years prior to the claim;
• not being unemployed, if subject to the employment activation obligations referred to in article 6 paragraph 4 of Decree-Law No. 48/2023, following voluntary resignation, in the 12 months following the date of resignation, without prejudice to the resignation due to just cause, as well as the termination by mutual consent of the employment relationship which occurred in the context of the procedure referred to in art. 7 of Law 604/1966;
• not residing in totally publicly funded facilities;
• having fulfilled the obligation to education for beneficiaries between the ages of 18 and 29 or being enrolled and attending first-level adult education courses aimed at fulfilling the aforementioned obligation to education referred to in Article 1, paragraph 622, of Law 296/2006.

ISEE: omissions and/or discrepancies

INPS will inform the claimant if omissions and/or discrepancies are found in the ISEE with respect to the data found in the tax register and/or the self-declared data concerning movable assets (e.g. current accounts, deposit accounts, securities). The claimant may provide the Institute with supporting documents or a new DSU (single substitute statement) that does not contain any discrepancies within a reasonable period of time in order to allow the claim to be accepted.

Notification Obligations

The ADI is compatible with work as an employee or self-employed person, with the consequent possible reassessment of the amount of the benefit or its forfeiture if the thresholds are exceeded.

Therefore, the claimant or the members of the family unit receiving the ADI must inform INPS of any employment relationships already existing at the time of the claim or that have already ended and are not included in the ISEE for the whole year (by means of the short ADI-Com form) as well as of any change in employment while the benefit is being paid (by means of the long ADI-Com form).

In particular, should one or more members of the family unit commence employment or initiate a business or self-employment venture while receiving ADI, any additional income earned will not factor into the calculation of the economic benefit, up to a ceiling of €3,000 gross per year, calculated for the entire family unit.

The income from work exceeding the threshold will contribute to the determination of the financial benefit starting from the month following the change until the higher income is accounted for in the ISEE for the whole year.

In order to determine the aforementioned 3,000-euro threshold, the employee must notify INPS of the presumed income from employment within thirty days of commencement by using the long ADI-Com form.

If the period of thirty days from the start of the employment activity, as indicated in the compulsory declarations, has elapsed without any communication from the worker, the payment of the benefit will be suspended until this obligation has been fulfilled, and in any case no later than three months from the start of the activity, after which the benefit will be forfeited.

The commencement of a business or self-employment activity, whether carried out on an individual or partnership basis by one or more family members while the ADI is being paid, must be notified to INPS by the day before the commencement of the activity, under penalty of forfeiture of the benefit, by using the long ADI-Com form.

Income is calculated on a cash basis as the difference between the revenues and remuneration received and the expenses incurred in carrying out the activity, and must be reported within the fifteenth day following the end of each quarter of the year. As an incentive, the beneficiary will receive the ADI without any change for the two months following the change in employment status, without prejudice to the total duration of the benefit. Subsequently, the benefit will be updated each quarter with reference to the previous quarter, and income will contribute to the part exceeding 3,000 euro gross per year, calculated for the whole family unit.

While the benefit is being received, if there are any changes in the family unit compared with the previous ISEE certificate, an updated DSU must be submitted within one month of the change, under penalty of forfeiting the benefit. With the sole exception of changes due to deaths and births, the new family unit may submit a new claim for ADI from the month following that in which the updated DSU for ISEE purposes is submitted, as the effects of the previous claim cease to apply.

Procedures for accessing the ADI for holders of residence permits for ‘special cases’

As previously mentioned, those eligible for the ADI include holders of residence permits for ‘special cases’ as referred to in Articles 18 (Residence for reasons of social protection), 18bis (Residence permit for victims of domestic violence) and 18ter (Residence permit for foreign nationals who are victims of unlawful recruitment and labour exploitation) of the TUI.

In light of the provisions of Article 6(3) of Decree-Law No. 145 of 11 October 2024 and Article 4(1) of Decree-Law No. 146 of 3 October 2025, No. 146, such persons may benefit from the ADI without the application of the provisions set out in Article 2(2)(a) and (b) of Decree-Law 48/2023, namely the requirements relating to citizenship, residence and domicile ^[1], as well as the financial requirements (relating to income and assets) as described above.

However, the limits relating to the ownership of durable goods and other indicators of standard of living set out in Article 2(2)(c) of Decree-Law 48/2023 do apply.

Furthermore, the following provisions set out in Article 2(2)(d), (3), (5) and (10) of Decree-Law 48/2023 apply to holders of residence permits for special cases.

The requirements set out in Article 6(4) of Decree-Law 145/2024 also apply to holders of residence permits referred to in Article 18-ter of the TUI.

For further details on how holders of residence permits for ‘special cases’ as referred to in Articles 18, 18-bis and 18-ter of the TUI may access and benefit from the ADI benefit, please refer to the provisions set out in INPS Circular No. 58 of 20 May 2026 (in Italian).

HOW CAN I CLAIM?

The ADI claim may be submitted to INPS from 18 December 2023:

• electronically through the website, by logging in with your credentials;
• at patronage institutes;
• at a Fiscal Assistance Centre.

After submitting the claim, the data will be accessible through the Social and Labour Inclusion Information System (SIISL) activation platform, where the claimant must:

• register on the Social and Labour Inclusion Information System (SIISL) platform and sign the Pact for Digital Activation for the family unit (PAD), expressly authorising the transmission of data relating to the request to social services, CPIs (public employment centres), employment agencies and intermediation bodies, as well as to entities accredited for employment services;
• upon signing the family unit PAD, the family's data are automatically forwarded to the social services of the municipality of residence for analysis and acceptance for family members with complex needs and for activating any necessary support;
• after the automatic transfer of family data, beneficiaries must attend the initial appointment with social services within 120 days of signing the family unit PAD. Should social services fail to issue a summons and if no initial meeting takes place within the specified timeframe, the payment of the benefit will be suspended, only to resume after the meeting. It is important to note that failure to attend scheduled appointments with social services, without valid justification, results in the beneficiary family forfeiting the benefit.

Social services conduct a multidimensional analysis of family members.

Following this analysis, various solutions may be identified for individual family members with parental responsibilities or included in the equivalence scale:

• family members who are adults, bear parental responsibilities, are unemployed, not enrolled in educational courses, and without caregiving duties are obliged to participate in the employment placement programme. Following referral to employment centres, they are required to sign the Personalised Service Agreement within 60 days, after signing the individual PAD, and to follow the subsequent activation process;
• members of the family with disabilities or aged 60 or over or included in protection programmes related to gender-based violence may in any case request voluntary participation in a personalised programme for employment placement or social inclusion.

The following are excluded from the obligation to participate in employment placement programmes:

• the beneficiaries of the Inclusion Allowance who are holders of a direct pension or aged 60 years or over;
• family members with disabilities, pursuant to Law No. 68/1999, without prejudice to any targeted placement initiative;
• family members who have been diagnosed with cancer;
• family members with caregiving responsibilities, as assessed based on the presence of children under three years of age or three or more minor children, or family members with disabilities or non-self-sufficiency, as defined in Annex 3 to the regulations pursuant to Italian Council of Ministers Presidential Decree No. 159/2013;
• family members enrolled in protection programmes related to gender-based violence and women victims of violence, with or without children, who are supported by anti-violence centres recognized by regional governments or social services.

The personalised service pact must be signed within 60 days of the participants being referred to the jobcentre or to accredited employment services providers. If the personalised service pact is not signed within the specified timeframe, due to a failure by the relevant services to summon the participants, payment of the benefit will be suspended. If a beneficiary fails to attend appointments or to sign the personalised service agreement at the request of the relevant services, without a valid reason, the financial benefit will be withdrawn.

With regard to the signing of the inclusion pact, ADI beneficiaries, even if exempt from work activation obligations, are nevertheless required to undertake a personalised social inclusion programme by signing the inclusion agreement, pursuant to Article 6(1) of Decree-Law No. 48 of 2023, with the exception of household members aged between 18 and 59, who have no parental responsibilities and are excluded from the equivalence scale, and who may participate in work activation activities under the SFL; they are therefore exempt from the obligations under the ADI. This also applies to household members with disabilities, those aged 60 or over, or those enrolled in protection programmes relating to gender-based violence, who may nevertheless apply to participate on a voluntary basis.

The provisions of Articles 4 and 5 of Decree-Law 48/2023 and Article 4 of Ministerial Decree 154/2023 also apply to holders of residence permits for ‘special cases’, with regard to the obligation to register on the activation platform for social and labour market inclusion within the Social and Labour Inclusion Information System(SIISL). On this point, please refer to the provisions set out in INPS Circular No. 58 of 20 May 2026 (in Italian). 

^[1] Holders of residence permits for special cases referred to in Articles 18, 18-bis and 18-ter of the Consolidated Law on Immigration (TUI) must, in any event, reside in Italy for the entire duration of the ADI scheme in order to be eligible for it, subject to the provisions of Article 2(10) of Decree-Law 48/2023 in the event of a temporary stay abroad.

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