The “citizenship income” payment will boost Italy’s GDP growth next year by only about 0.1%, in part because take-up has been lower than predicted. While this also lowers the cost of the policy, the government will need to find much bigger savings to avoid breaching the 3% of GDP deficit limit in 2020.
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