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Old age pension: Payable when the following requirements are met: minimum age 65 years for men and 60 for women; minimum contribution payments of 20 years; no longer working.
Pensions for seniority: Payable to employees and may be applied for before reaching the minimum age laid down for the old age pension. The conditions are: no longer working, 57 years of age and 35 years of contributions (excluding contributions paid for sickness and unemployment) or any age and 37 years of contributions - to be increased to 40 years from 2008 (the contribution for sickness and unemployment benefit is also counted).
For freelance workers: it is no longer necessary to have stopped work. the two alternative requirements are: aged 58 and 35 years of contribution - or any age and 40 years of contributions.
Disability pension: The following conditions are required for eligibility for the disability pension: physical or mental disease certified by INPS doctors that make it absolutely and permanently impossible to carry out any type of work, history of insurance and contribution payments: at least five years of insurance, of which at least three years paid during the five years prior to the pension application.
Survivor’s pension: two types are payable, an indirect pension to household members on the death of an insured worker and the right to pass on the pension if the deceased person already had a seniority pension, old age or disability pension.
The indirect pension is payable only if the worker has accumulated at least 15 years of contributions, even during different periods, of which at least 3 during the five year period prior to decease.
