https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Retirees with pensions from another country could benefit from a new flat tax that's designed to attract new residents to small villages in the south of Italy. Here's how it works. https://www.thelocal.it/20190613/move-to-southern-italy-foreign-pension-flat-tax-break Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:09:14 +0200 move-to-southern-italy-foreign-pension-flat-tax-break Irma Borgoglio would have celebrated her 103rd birthday in September, but when police found her body in the apartment she shared with her son, she had been dead for months. https://www.thelocal.it/20160907/dead-woman-kept-in-freezer-so-son-could-get-her-pension Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:19:24 +0200 dead-woman-kept-in-freezer-so-son-could-get-her-pension A 98-year-old woman has won a long legal battle and finally gained compensation from the Italian state after being raped by soldiers during World War II. https://www.thelocal.it/20150924/98-year-old-woman-compensated-for-wwii-rape Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:11:28 +0200 98-year-old-woman-compensated-for-wwii-rape Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said the axing of his €8,000 a month parliamentary pension was the latest “insult” against him. So much so, because he gave the money to charity. https://www.thelocal.it/20150716/berlusconi-slams-pension-cut-as-an-insult Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:22:39 +0200 berlusconi-slams-pension-cut-as-an-insult A broke Italian father in Treviso, northern Italy, is suing his two sons for refusing to lend him €80, Italian media has reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20150629/father-sues-sons-for-refusing-to-give-him-money Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:11:43 +0200 father-sues-sons-for-refusing-to-give-him-money Sicily's regional parliament is paying a €1,000 a month pension to the widow of a former lawmaker who never took his seat in the assembly, officials confirmed Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150213/lawmaker-who-never-was-passes-on-pension-to-widow Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:54:00 +0100 lawmaker-who-never-was-passes-on-pension-to-widow The Bank of Italy has said it will reimburse a pensioner in Tuscany after mice gnawed a sizeable chunk out of her pension, making the banknotes worthless. https://www.thelocal.it/20140917/woman-gets-refund-after-mouse-eats-pension Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:17:00 +0200 woman-gets-refund-after-mouse-eats-pension A carer in Sicily is believed to have buried an elderly man in her care, after he died at home, in order to continue claiming his pension. https://www.thelocal.it/20140717/carer-buried-elderly-man-to-claim-pension Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:31:00 +0200 carer-buried-elderly-man-to-claim-pension A man in Rome was caught claiming his dead mother's pension after post office workers became suspicious that her apparent longevity was too good to be true. https://www.thelocal.it/20140407/benefit-fraudster-nabbed-by-mums-longevity-2 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:46:00 +0200 benefit-fraudster-nabbed-by-mums-longevity-2 An elderly woman from Conegliano in the Veneto region was robbed of her entire pension after being told the banknotes were contaminated by a deadly virus. https://www.thelocal.it/20140103/pensioner-robbed-as-money-contained-deadly-virus Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:28:00 +0100 pensioner-robbed-as-money-contained-deadly-virus