
The pension flexibility measures introduced between 2019 and 2025, including Quota 100, 102 and 103, resulted in overall costs of approximately 41.3 billion euros, as disclosed by the State General Accounting Office.
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Pension flexibility measures in Italy have included Quota 100, 102 and 103, as well as the Women's Option and exemptions on the adjustment to life expectancy.
"The flexibility measures in access to retirement introduced by legislative decree no. 4 of 2019 and related extensions resulted in approximately 41.3 billion euros in total costs in the period 2019-2025". The State General Accounting Office writes this in the Report "The medium-long term trends of the pension and social-healthcare system", explaining that overall the possibility of exiting with 62 years of age and 38 of contributions (Quote 100), then with 64 years of age and 38 of contributions (Quota 102) and then with 62 years of age and 41 of contributions (Quota 103), together with the women's option and the block of the adjustment of the contribution requirements to life expectancy for those who retired early with 42 years and 10 months of contributions cost 41,286,337,226 euros in the cumulative period 2019-2025.

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