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The ISEE — Indicatore della Situazione Economica Equivalente — is Italy's universal means-test indicator. It summarises a family's overall economic position by combining redditi (income from the last two years), patrimonio mobiliare (financial assets at 31 December and average annual balance, giacenza media), and patrimonio immobiliare (real estate, by rendita catastale), then dividing by the scala di equivalenza based on household composition. INPS issues an attestation showing the ISEE figure, which public bodies use to grant or scale benefits — Assegno Unico Universale for children, Reddito di Cittadinanza / Assegno di Inclusione, Bonus bebè, bonus asilo nido, university grants and free tuition, Carta Acquisti, esenzione ticket sanitario, casa popolare, and many regional or municipal subsidies.

The DSU (Dichiarazione Sostitutiva Unica) is the input form you fill in and sign — a self-declaration of family composition, income, financial assets and property used by INPS to compute the ISEE. The ISEE attestation (attestazione ISEE) is the output document INPS releases after processing the DSU and cross-checking data with the Agenzia delle Entrate (for redditi) and the Anagrafe Tributaria (for conti correnti, financial accounts). You submit the DSU; you spend the attestation. Most benefit applications ask for the attestation number and validity date, not the DSU itself.

Most national and regional means-tested benefits in Italy are tied to the ISEE. Key examples: Assegno Unico Universale (the universal child benefit, with the full €189-per-child rate paid up to ISEE €17,090 and tapered to a minimum at ISEE above €45,574, indexed yearly); Reddito di Cittadinanza, replaced from 2024 by the Assegno di Inclusione for households with minors, over-60s or disabilities; Bonus bebè and bonus asilo nido (kindergarten subsidy up to €3,000 per year per child); university tasse universitarie scaled by ISEE, with free tuition typically up to around ISEE €22,000; Carta Acquisti (Social Card); esenzione ticket sanitario for healthcare co-pay; bonus libri, bonus psicologo, bonus mamme; access to casa popolare (social housing) and reduced rates for utenze, mensa scolastica and trasporti.

The ISEE ordinario uses redditi from two years prior (the 2026 ordinario uses 2024 income, since 2025 returns are still in the filing cycle) and patrimonio data from the year before. It is the default — valid throughout the calendar year. The ISEE corrente is an updated version you can request when the household has had a material economic shock: loss of a job, end of unemployment benefit, severe income drop above the legal threshold (typically over 25% in recent reforms), or significant changes in the patrimonio. The corrente refreshes the redditi to the last twelve months and the patrimonio to recent quarters; it overrides the ordinario for as long as it's valid (six months for income changes, twelve for patrimonio changes under current rules), and lets families qualify for benefits the older ordinario figure would have blocked.

The ISEE minorenni is the variant required when a benefit application concerns a child whose parents are separated, divorced or were never married and don't share the same nucleo familiare. The DSU adds a specific module that captures the non-custodial parent's income and assets, since national rules consider both parents' economic capacity even when only one lives with the child. The variant is required for benefits like the Assegno Unico Universale when parents are separated, the bonus asilo nido, and university grants when the student's reference parent is the custodial one but the other parent has appreciable income. INPS lays out the rules for the parente non convivente in the DSU instructions on inps.it.

The ISEE università (or ISEE per prestazioni per il diritto allo studio universitario) is the variant universities and regional ERSU/ADISU bodies use to scale tuition (tasse universitarie) and grant borse di studio. The student is generally considered fiscally tied to the parents' nucleo familiare, so the calculation aggregates the student's own income and assets with those of the family of origin. A student is treated as autonomo only when they meet two strict conditions together: residency outside the parents' household for at least two years in a property not owned by the family, and adequate independent income for at least two years (the thresholds are set yearly by ministerial decree). For most undergraduates the family ISEE applies, and free tuition is typically granted up to about ISEE €22,000, with progressive tasse universitarie above that.

Bring (for every member of the nucleo familiare): codice fiscale and, if applicable, partita IVA; identity document; Modello CU, Modello 730 or Modello Redditi for the income reference years; documentation of any non-CU income (rents, foreign income, occasional work); for patrimonio mobiliare, the saldo of every conto corrente, postal account, deposit, broker and pension fund at 31 December plus the giacenza media (average annual balance) shown on the bank's certificato or e-statement; for patrimonio immobiliare, the visura catastale showing rendita catastale of each property and quote of ownership, plus any residual mortgage; vehicle data for cars and motorbikes above a certain cilindrata; any disability certifications that qualify for ISEE bonuses; and bank account details (IBAN) for the household. CAF, patronati and commercialisti will hold a checklist matching the current DSU form.

You have three main paths to submit the DSU. (1) INPS online on inps.it — sign in with SPID, CIE (Carta d'Identità Elettronica) or CNS (Carta Nazionale dei Servizi), fill the DSU precompilata using data INPS and the Agenzia delle Entrate already hold, confirm the rest, and submit. Free, but you handle errors yourself. (2) CAF (Centro di Assistenza Fiscale) — free for taxpayers thanks to a public convenzione with INPS; staff handle data entry, cross-checks and submission, and you walk out with a ricevuta and a date for the attestation. (3) Patronato or commercialista — also free at patronati linked to unions and associations; commercialisti charge but offer broader fiscal advice. PDF Edit fits before any of these: you can fill the official DSU PDF privately to organise figures and have a clean draft ready for whichever channel you choose.

Every ISEE is tied to the calendar year. An ISEE submitted in 2026 is valid until 31 December 2026; it doesn't matter whether you submit it in January or November — it expires on the same date. From 1 January the prior year's ISEE is no longer accepted for new applications, and you must file a fresh DSU. The only exception is the ISEE corrente, which has a shorter validity (six or twelve months from submission depending on the trigger). INPS pushes a reminder via the MyINPS area on inps.it before the year ends, and most benefits asking for ISEE include a deadline by which the new year's attestation must be presented.

No. The DSU has legal standing as a self-declaration and must be transmitted through the official channels — INPS online via SPID/CIE/CNS, a CAF, a patronato or a commercialista. PDF Edit is for filling the official PDF privately in your browser: useful for drafting figures, planning whether to file an ordinario or a corrente, archiving a clean copy of what you submitted, and preparing the dossier for the CAF or patronato. Your data stays in the browser and is never uploaded to a server — the page is fully client-side, so PDF Edit literally cannot see your codice fiscale, redditi or conto saldo.