The government's new 'inclusion
cheque' anti-poverty benefit will actually increase poverty in
Italy, the European Commission said Wednesday.
The benefit will raise absolute poverty by 0.8 percentage points
and child poverty by 0.5 percentage points, with respect to the
previous regime, said the EU executive.
New and more rigorous criteria for getting the benefit will
reduce the impact in easing poverty, said Brusels.
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