For the regularity of contributions to welfare agencies, it is crucial that any contribution debts, penalties, and interests do not exceed a total of 150 euros – as pointed out by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies in a query on 13 October 2025, No. 13.
The National Association for Industry and Tertiary Sector (ANPIT) raised a query asking the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies whether it was possible to interpret the concept of “non-serious deviation” under Article 3, paragraph 3 of D.M. 30 January 2015. The interpretation they were seeking was that where debtor situations towards pension agencies are made up exclusively of legal accessories (penalties/interest) and thus lack actual contribution omission because they are already under penalty, the pension agency is nevertheless required to issue a DURC certifying compliance with contributions. The pension agency can activate different coercive tools to recover the credit sums.
The Department for Labour, Pension, Insurance Policies, and Health and Safety in the Workplace believes that civil penalties play the role of strengthening the contribution obligation and compensating the damage caused to the pension agency. These penalties are automatically enforced in case of non-payment or late payment of contributions.
Penalties consist of a sum, predetermined by law, which becomes due when the legal term for the payment of the contribution debt has expired. The effects of interruptive acts, enacted concerning contribution credits, automatically extend to the credit for civil penalties.
According to the Ministry, any contribution debts, penalties, and interests must not surpass 150 euros collectively – which is the amount identified by the law that does not prevent real-time certification of the regularity of applicants’ contributions. The explicit indication derived from the literal drafting of this provision led the pension agency to calibrate the entire procedure for the automatic issuance of the contribution regularity certification through the “Durc On Line”.
Therefore, for contribution regularity, it is necessary that any contribution debts, penalties and interests, in their entirety, do not exceed 150 euros, the threshold limit for “non-serious deviation”.
