The public health emergency: the support for workers, households and firms provided by the State Treasury

The article entitled 'The public health emergency: the support for workers, households and firms provided by the State Treasury', written by researchers from the Bank of Italy, is now online.

In 2020, in order to deal with the socio-economic emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government came up with some extraordinary schemes for giving immediate support to the workers, firms and households most directly affected by the economic crisis. As regards payments, the State Treasury, managed by the Bank of Italy, has carried out most of these schemes. This analysis provides a summary of the payments made by direct transfer to the final beneficiaries from April 2020 onwards, on behalf of the National Social Security Institute (INPS), the Italian Revenue Agency and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism.