
The Ministry of Infrastructure platform for contributions of up to 6 thousand euros per year is online
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The contribution is worth 20 million euros and was established by the last budget for the benefit of separated and divorced parents.
Applications for the rental bonus dedicated to separated parents can be submitted from 12pm on 7 October. The Ministry of Infrastructure has, in fact, put the platform online through which it will be possible to request access to the new contribution for housing support intended for separated or divorced parents who are not assigned their own family home and have dependent children up to the age of 21.
The new contribution is worth 20 million euros and was established by the last budget for the benefit of separated and divorced parents. The bonus, more specifically, will be reserved for those separated parents who have declared a maximum of 35 thousand euros. To obtain it - unusually for this type of instrument - you will not look at the ISEE.
The bonus will be equal to 50% of the amount paid for the rent, with a ceiling of 6 thousand euros per year: that is, 500 euros per month. The funds will be distributed between the Regions looking at three criteria: the average number of separated or divorced parents (which is the main element), the average regional income and the percentage of Municipalities with high housing tension. Cross-referencing these parameters, it turns out that the first Regions to obtain funds will be Lombardy, Lazio and Campania.
Income will not be the only requirement to be respected. The parent, in addition to being legally separated or divorced, must be the holder of a rental contract and not be the owner of properties in the same municipality as the family home or in neighboring municipalities, within a radius of 50 kilometres. And he must "be up to date with his child care and maintenance obligations".
The contribution will be assigned on the basis of a ranking. Priority will be given to those with multiple dependent children under the age of 21; those who are disabled or have disabled children; subjects in conditions of "involuntary unemployment"; those who reside in a municipality with high housing tension.
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