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. Furthermore, in order to request support, you must be in possession of 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 parent must not be the owner of one or more residential properties in the same municipality as the family home or in neighboring municipalities, within a radius of 50 km.
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To get the bonus, first you need to send the application within the established timeframe. Applications can in fact be submitted by 12.00 on Wednesday 28 October 2026. The order of arrival of applications does not constitute any preference, as the ranking will be drawn up in relation to the scores deriving from the conditions indicated in the announcement. 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.
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To get an idea of the score you could get, you can try doing a calculation. The score is given by the sum of the items indicated in Annex 2 of the ministerial decree. There is no maximum: each child adds points. With an income of up to 15 thousand euros, for example, you get 15 points. From 15,001 to 25 thousand if there are 13; from 25,001 to 30 thousand if they have 10. Two points for each dependent child which becomes 4 if the child is disabled; 4 points also for personal disability and 2 for involuntary unemployment. If you live in a municipality with a population greater than 200 thousand inhabitants you get 5 points, in places with less than 200 thousand inhabitants you get 2.
Priority in the ranking goes to those who have a greater number of dependent children under the age of 21, are disabled or at least one of the children is disabled, are in a situation of involuntary unemployment or reside in a municipality with high housing tension pursuant to article 8 of law 9 December 1998, n. 431, and of the CIPE Resolution of 13 November 2003, n. 87. If the final score is equal, priority will be given to those with the lowest income.
Altroconsumo reports that the 5 points are awarded for residence in one of the twelve Municipalities that Istat classifies as having over 250,000 inhabitants, namely Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Bari, Catania, Verona and Venice. To these are added Messina and Padua, above 200,000. In the most recent surveys, Brescia is practically on the threshold, while Parma, Trieste and Prato remain just below. For these Municipalities, the difference between 5 and 2 points depends on the population data that the platform will use, and the decree does not indicate either the source or the date of the data. The 2 points are awarded to those who reside in a municipality with under 200,000 inhabitants included in the list of municipalities with high housing tension in CIPE resolution 87/2003. The list includes the municipalities that in 2003 were provincial capitals and numerous municipalities in large urban areas but has never been updated: the provinces established after 2003 do not appear as such.
Altroconsumo has also identified the difference in scores on seven different profiles. For example, with an income of 32 thousand euros, one child and residence in a municipality with no high housing tension you get 12 points while those who have an income of 14 thousand euros, 2 children of which one is disabled, are involuntarily unemployed and live in a city with over 200,000 inhabitants get 28. What makes the difference is the region or autonomous province of origin. The 20 million are divided into provisions by Region and Autonomous Province before the applications arrive, and each applicant competes only with residents of their own territory. If a Region receives fewer applications than the capacity of its provision, the resources are reallocated pro rata to the provisions of the others. The regional ranking is approved by decree within fifteen days of the deadline closing, therefore approximately by mid-November. After publication, the Ministry can carry out random checks on the declarations: anyone who has declared falsely is excluded, so the documents proving what has been declared must be preserved.
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