Gestione separata
The "Gestione separata INPS" is a pension fund, financed with the mandatory social security contributions of insured workers. It was born in 1995 with the reform of pension system. More info can be found here.
In short, as a PhD, you need to subscribe to it in order to have your tax contributions (directly deducted from your gross salary) counted by the national pension system. Furthermore, it allows you to ask for the unemployment benefit ("sussidio di disoccupazione"). It amounts to the 70% of your net income until you find a new job, up to 6 months after the end of your PhD. To this end, you firstly need to obtain your personal INPS credentials. This procedure will also help you to get your ISEE score and allow you to take advantage of the cafeteria discounts.
INPS credentials
There are two ways in which access your INPS personal page: the "PIN dispositivo" and SPID credentials. If you are an holder of an Italian document (carta di identità), you need you have the SPID credentials, if you do not, you can only ask for a "PIN dispositivo" (see here). Go to the SPID page to see the instructions to obtain your SPID credentials. We strongly recommend you to activate your SPID account, it will ease your bureaucratic life.
Registration to gestione separata
After you get your credentials, you can proceed to subscribe to Gestione Separata. The full procedure and all the information needed for the registration can be found here
After the login on www.inps.it, enter on the search field "gestione separata - iscrizione". Then look the image here below. You have to do only few choices: 1) "Per sé stessi"; 2) Parasubordinato; 3) date of the beginning of PhD; 4) contacts.
Please note that you can't choose a date in the future. So do it AFTER the beginning of your PhD. Normally, SISSA PhDs officially begin October, 1st or November, 1st (not on 3rd or 7th). If you began in a period different from October or November, please ask the date of the official begin of your PhD to Students' Secretariat.
Here's a complete guide: File:Registration to Gestione Separata.pdf
