The provision of the one-off benefit for self-employed workers could be launched shortly with a click day. Applications would thus be accepted in chronological order, until funds are exhausted. 
Confesercenti: "Resources are not enough for the whole category, there are those who will be left out". Confcommercio: "Iniquity between those entitled".
There would be around 400 thousand independent workers - self-employed, professionals and micro-entrepreneurs - who risk not receiving the 200 euro bonus. The estimates come from Confesercenti, which denounces how these categories will be forced "to participate in yet another click day" in order to collect the indemnity. In practice: requests will be satisfied on the basis of the chronological order of receipt. Thus, many workers could be left without bonuses.
Rumor has it that click day could be expected soon, maybe September 15th. Awaiting confirmation, Confesercenti defines this method of booking allowances - already tested for other concessions - "an unacceptable lottery". The fact of assigning "support based on the chronological order of presentation of the application - which is very onerous from the point of view of document production - until the available resources are exhausted" automatically excludes all those who apply at a later time.
Then there is a resource problem. According to Confesercenti estimates, the 600 million euros allocated by the government with the Aid bis Decree for non-employee workers would be enough for only 3 million people. However, there are at least 3.4 million Italians who in 2021 had an Isee income not exceeding 35 thousand euros and who therefore meet the requirements to be able to ask for 200 euros. “Up to 400,000 workers, therefore, but perhaps even more, risk being excluded from a support that should be their right,” says Confesercenti.
All this would lead to "an inadmissible distortion for a category already amply tested by the crisis due to the health emergency first and then to high bills", concludes the association. Other acronyms, in recent days, have highlighted the same problems. Thus, for example, Confcommercio, which adds that at the moment "over 3 million self-employed and professional workers are still waiting to know when and how to access the 200 euro bonus" .
For employees, the disbursement - which began last July - was simpler: in essence, it was enough to fill in a self-declaration regarding the requirements. Self-employed workers and professionals are however still awaiting the indications of an interministerial implementing decree which should allow "the full usability of the aid within the month of September" automatically, "as happened for employees".
Confcommercio therefore also asks that applications should not be submitted to methods which, as in the case of a possible click day, would make access to the measure more difficult, "generating inequity within the same audience of those entitled".
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