From teachers to principals to educational staff and permanent ATA: starting from 25 September, all interested parties can submit an application for retirement through the Polis - Online Applications service, the Mim portal which is also valid in the event of revocation. Exceptions are foreseen for some categories, such as personnel serving abroad, in the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano or in Valle d'Aosta, for which the request can be made with specific territorial methods.
For teachers, educators and ATA staff, the ministry sets the deadline for applications as Wednesday 21 October 2026. For school managers, however, the calendar follows a different path, with the deadline for applications being 1 March 2027. The ordinary deadline would be 28 February but since it falls on a Sunday, a public holiday, it is postponed to the first available working day. Applications for voluntary resignation, retention in service and transformation of the employment relationship to part-time by those who have only reached the service limit can be transferred within the same terms.
Among the models prepared by the Mim, the most relevant is the one intended for employees who meet the requirements for the old-age pension by 31 December 2027. Requirements which from 1 January next year are destined to change upon reaching the minimum age of 67 years and 1 month and at least 20 years of contributions. The extension of the age requirements will increase further from 1 January 2028, when a minimum of 67 years and 3 months will be required. According to the new forecasts of the State Accounting Office, from 2029 the old-age pension could require 67 years and 6 months and then reach 67 years and 8 months from 2031.
As provided for by the 2026 Budget Law, certain categories are excluded from the increase, such as workers registered with compulsory general insurance (or replacement forms) who carry out particularly tiring and demanding tasks. In the world of school, this group includes primary school teachers, pre-primary school teachers and similar roles. For the old-age pension, the ministerial table indicates a requirement of 66 years and 7 months with at least 30 years of contributions accrued by 31 August 2027 for those who have carried out strenuous activities for at least seven years in the last ten.
From next year, more stringent requirements are foreseen for workers who intend to apply for an early pension. To leave work on 1 September 2027 it will be necessary to have accrued, by 31 December 2027, at least 41 years and 11 months of contributions for women or 42 years and 11 months for men. Unlike the old-age pension, in this case the distinction with those employed in heavy-duty activities is lost.
Another model prepared by the Mim concerns school workers who intend to request the women's option. The table recalls the requirements accrued by 31 December 2024, i.e. 35 years of contributions and 61 of age with a reduction of one year for each child within a maximum of two. In addition to the age and contribution requirements, other conditions must also exist such as assistance, for at least six months, of a family member with a serious disability or recognized disability equal to or greater than 74%. In any case, it remains possible to apply with the accrued requirements valid for the previous versions of Opzione Donna achieved by 31 December of the years 2021, 2022 or 2023.
Not just the Women's Option. Polis includes the presentation of the request for termination of service also for those who have already met the requirements with forms of retirement that are no longer active. This is the case, for example, of Quota 100 with the achievement, by 31 December 2021, of at least 62 years and 38 of contributions.
Even for those who have completed the requirements for the flexible early pension (Quota 103) by 31 December 2023, it is possible to submit an application on Polis within the aforementioned deadlines: in this case, a contribution period of 41 years and 62 years of chronological age is required. While for those who met the requirement in 2024 or 2025 the pension allowance is determined according to the rules of the contributory system.
