Payments unlocked for thousands of substitute and newly hired school staff.

Starting today, Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the electronic transmission of school staff contracts from the SIDI system to the NoiPA database has officially resumed. The reopening of the data flows allows for the unblocking of positions for thousands of teachers and school collaborators, administrative assistants, and technicians—particularly substitutes and newly hired staff—whose contracts had not yet been processed by the salary system of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

With the completion of these operations, payments for temporary or newly hired staff are being unblocked. The data transmission between SIDI (the information system managed by the Ministry of Education and Merit) and the NoiPA portal was necessary to finalize important monthly administrative tasks, including the processing of regular salary payments.

The Italian public school staff salary payment system is based on the connection between two state-run IT platforms: SIDI (Sistema Informativo Dell'Istruzione), managed by the Ministry of Education, and NoiPA (Nucleo operativo per la liquidazione delle pensioni e degli stipendi), managed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. SIDI records employment contracts, while NoiPA processes salaries.

Every year, at the start of the school year, an administrative bottleneck occurs when thousands of new temporary contracts (for teachers and administrative, technical, and auxiliary staff on fixed-term contracts) and those for newly tenured teachers (permanently hired) must be transferred from SIDI to NoiPA. If this transfer is blocked or delayed, as has happened, salary payments for these categories of workers are suspended.

The situation arises because the systems must process an enormous volume of data in a short time, often exacerbated by bureaucratic delays in contract registration. This recurring problem particularly affects temporary staff, who rely on regular payments. The unblocking of the flows, which occurred on October 6th, finally allows for the processing of the backlog of payments.