Rent bonus for separated and divorced parents, applications underway. Requirements and deadlines

The contribution is worth 20 million euros and was established by the latest budget for the benefit of separated and divorced parents. The bonus is specifically due to the parent who is not assigned the family home and who has dependent children up to 21 years of age. The IRPEF income limit is set at 35,000 euros per year.

The bonus will be equal to 50% of the amount paid for the rent, with a ceiling of 6 thousand euros per year, i.e. 500 euros per month. The funds, as Il Sole 24Ore anticipates, are distributed among the Regions looking at three criteria: the average number of separated or divorced parents, the average regional income and the percentage of Municipalities with high housing tension.

According to these parameters, the first Regions to obtain funds should be Lombardy, Lazio and Campania.

Furthermore, in order to request the bonus, you will need to have a regular rental contract and be up to date with the payment of any maintenance allowance. The bonus cannot be cumulated with other aid regarding rent.

The same parent must not be the owner of one or more properties for residential use in the same municipality as the family home or in neighboring municipalities, within a radius of 50 km.

The electronic applications can be submitted until 12.00 on Wednesday 28 October 2026. The order of arrival of the applications does not constitute any preference, however, as the ranking will be drawn up in relation to the scores deriving from the conditions indicated in the notice. The ranking for the 2026 year will be processed automatically by the platform, for each regional territorial area, taking into account the data and information indicated by the applicants in the applications. In the event of a tie in the score awarded, the value of the applicant's income will be taken into account when drawing up the regional ranking.

On a general level, according to the Istat report "Marriages, Civil Unions, Separations and Divorces year 2024", published in January 2026, Italians are getting married less and less and increasingly later. In our country there is a decline in marriages and a decrease in separations and divorces. According to the data, there is also a setback for second marriages, while mixed marriages are slightly decreasing. However, unions between foreigners and new Italian citizens are increasing.

In particular, if we then look at separations and divorces, in the first nine months of 2025 the Institute's provisional data indicate a decline: there were 75,014 (-9%) and 77,364 (-3.1%) respectively in 2024.