Naspi, news from January 2026: clarifications and updates from INPS

News on Naspi. The 2025 Budget Law has modified Article 3 of Legislative Decree 4 March 2015, n. 22, introducing, with reference to unemployment events occurring from 1 January 2025, a new contribution requirement for access to Naspi unemployment benefit in the presence of specific conditions . This is recalled by INPS.

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The new legislation, in particular, provides that - for involuntary termination events occurring from 1 January 2025 - the applicant for the benefit must demonstrate at least thirteen weeks of contributions from the last event of termination of the permanent employment relationship, interrupted by resignation or consensual termination, if such voluntary termination occurred in the twelve months preceding the involuntary termination of the employment relationship for which the Naspi benefit is requested.

The same provision excludes, however, from the hypotheses of voluntary termination resignation for just cause, resignation occurring during the protected period of maternity and paternity, as well as hypotheses of consensual termination occurring within the procedure referred to in Article 7 of Law 15 July 1966, n. 604, which allow access to the Naspi benefit. INPS also specifies that while voluntary termination for resignation or consensual termination must refer to an indefinite-term employment relationship, the subsequent involuntary termination, for which the Naspi benefit is requested, can concern both an indefinite-term employment relationship and a fixed-term employment relationship.

With regard to the strictly contributory aspect, it is highlighted that, for the purposes of the right to the benefit, in particular, the following are considered useful: social security contributions, including the NASPI quota paid during the employment relationship; notional contributions credited for compulsory maternity if at the beginning of the leave of absence contributions have already been paid or are due, and periods of parental leave provided that they are regularly compensated and occurred during the employment relationship; periods of work abroad in EU countries or in countries with agreements where the possibility of totalization is provided for; periods of leave from work due to illness of children up to 8 years of age, up to a limit of five working days in the calendar year.

If in the observation period, which runs from the date of voluntary termination of the permanent employment relationship to the date of involuntary termination of the employment relationship for which the benefit is requested, there are also weeks of contributions in the agricultural sector, these are cumulative and therefore useful for the purposes of fulfilling the requirement of thirteen weeks of contributions.

Finally, INPS reiterates that the changes introduced by the Budget Law refer exclusively to the new requirement of thirteen weeks of contributions that the insured must assert in the case of a voluntary termination by resignation or consensual resolution from an indefinite-term employment relationship that occurred in the twelve months preceding the involuntary termination of the employment relationship for which the NASPI benefit is requested.

Therefore, the provision introduced by the 2025 Budget Law does not affect the determination of the amount and duration of the Naspi benefit, the calculation of which continues to be carried out according to the previous provisions.