Overview
- Italy’s most-used SPID, PosteID, now costs €6 per year, charged at the first renewal after activation, with reminders sent about 30 days before the due date.
- Minors, people aged 75 or older, residents abroad, and professional-use identities are exempt from the annual fee.
- Accounts not renewed are suspended for up to 24 months and can be reactivated at any time by paying the annual charge.
- Users can switch to still-free SPID providers for now or use CIEID, the state-run digital identity tied to the electronic ID card, which is free.
- Providers point to higher infrastructure costs and constrained public funding as reasons for charging, as peers like Infocert, Aruba and Register already do, and Poste’s roughly 30 million users are urged to verify expirations and avoid paying through unsolicited email links.