Retrain while NASpI covers your living costs
Yes, you can take a course while drawing NASpI, including a full-time online bootcamp, and nothing in the rules asks who runs it. The benefit is paid to you rather than to a school, so there is no catalogue to be in and no accreditation to hold. Two things need saying in the same breath: it pays your living costs and never the course fee, and it stays yours only while you remain available for work under your patto di servizio. Here is how to keep both true at once.
The months are funded, the invoice is not
NASpI is unemployment insurance, not a training fund, and reading it as the second is where people go wrong. It replaces a share of what you used to earn, up to a monthly ceiling of roughly EUR 1,560 in 2026, for as long as 24 months depending on your contribution history, with the amount stepping down by 3% a month from the sixth. What it buys you is time: two years of covered living costs is longer than any bootcamp, and it is the resource an Italian career changer actually has. What it will not do is pay Code Labs Academy, or any other school. The fee stays with you, and this page is honest about that rather than burying it, because a plan built on the opposite belief falls apart in month one. The other half is a condition rather than a cost. Training is compatible with NASpI, and under the GOL logic it is encouraged, but the benefit rests on your remaining available for work and on honouring what you agreed with your centro per l'impiego. A course that quietly makes you unavailable is the risk here, and it is entirely avoidable if you tell them before you enrol rather than after.
You lost your job involuntarily and have at least 13 weeks of contributions in the last four years. Dismissal, non-renewal of a fixed-term contract and resignation for just cause are the usual routes in; a plain resignation generally is not. Apply to INPS, online or through a patronato, within 68 days of the end of the employment relationship.
It pays up to 75% of your previous average salary, against a monthly ceiling of about EUR 1,560 in 2026. Above the reference threshold the calculation tapers, so higher earners receive proportionally less of what they used to make.
It lasts up to 24 months, and it shrinks as it goes. The duration is half your weeks of contributions in the last four years, and the amount falls by 3% each month from the sixth. Both facts matter when you decide which cohort to join: the earlier months are worth more than the later ones.
Nothing in it looks at the school. The benefit is paid to you rather than to a provider, so an online course from a company outside Italy is treated exactly like an Italian classroom. There is no catalogue, no accreditation and no prior approval of the course itself.
Collaborators have their own version. DIS-COLL covers co.co.co. and similar contracts on comparable terms, and the same logic about training applies.
And the part to be blunt about: it does not pay tuition. Not ours, not anyone's. Treat it as two years of runway rather than as funding, and pair it with one of the routes in the last section for the fee itself.
Frequently asked questions
Can I really take a course while on NASpI?
Yes. Attending training is compatible with the benefit, and under the GOL framework it is treated as constructive rather than suspicious. What has to stay true is the condition the benefit rests on: you remain available for work and you honour what you agreed with your centro per l'impiego. That is why the practical advice on this page is not about eligibility but about sequence. Tell your operator before you enrol, get the course into your patto di servizio, and the compatibility question is settled in advance instead of being raised later by somebody else.
Will NASpI pay the course fee?
No, and we would rather say it plainly than let you find out in month one. NASpI is unemployment insurance: it replaces a share of your previous income and pays it to you. There is no component that reimburses tuition, no invoice you can submit and nothing that is paid to a school. What it gives you is up to 24 months of covered living costs, which is the resource that makes retraining possible at all. The fee is a separate problem, and the last section on this page is how people usually solve it.
Does it matter that Code Labs Academy is not an Italian provider?
Not for NASpI, because the benefit follows you rather than the course. There is no catalogue to appear in, no accreditation to hold and no approval of the provider anywhere in the rules, which is unusual and worth knowing given how many Italian training schemes work the other way round. Regional vouchers and GOL-procured courses are scoped to accredited providers on regional lists; NASpI is not one of those. Our AZAV certification is a German quality accreditation, so read it as evidence of external audit rather than as any Italian recognition, which this benefit does not ask for.
How much will I actually receive, and for how long?
Up to 75% of your previous average salary against a monthly ceiling of roughly EUR 1,560 in 2026, tapering above the reference threshold, for a duration equal to half your weeks of contributions in the last four years and capped at 24 months. From the sixth month the amount falls by 3% a month. Two consequences worth planning around: your own figure depends on your history rather than on any published number, so check it on INPS rather than assuming, and the early months are worth more than the later ones, which argues for starting a course sooner rather than saving it for later.
What happens if I get a job halfway through the bootcamp?
That is the outcome the benefit exists for, and it is not a problem to manage so much as one to declare. Starting work affects your entitlement, and there are rules covering suspension and resumption for short contracts, but they only help if INPS is told in time. On the course side, our live schedule is fixed and published in advance, so you can see before you enrol whether it fits alongside work, and it is a conversation worth having with us early rather than a decision to make alone.
I resigned rather than being dismissed. Do I have anything?
Usually not NASpI, since it is built around involuntary job loss, though resignation for just cause and some other situations are treated differently, and it is worth checking your own case with a patronato rather than assuming. If NASpI is closed to you, nothing on this page's last section depends on it: interest-free instalments do not look at your employment status, the upfront discount is open to anyone, and if you register a partita IVA the training may become deductible against your professional income.
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