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TV Millionaire Gets Social Benefits – in Greece, where else?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Lifestyle
She has been celebrated for over 15 years as the Queen of the Lifestyle in Greek television. She signed contracts up to 80,000 euro per month. And yet! Eleni Menegaki gets social benefits after the birth of her third child, reported STAR television. For the year 2010 the “Queen” received €3,192 from the Farmers’ Insurance fund OGA. - how comes that a TV persona finds herself at the Farmers’ Fund is not explained, but whatever… Anyway, Star TV also published the confirmation documents issued by OGA.
Of course, Menegaki and any Menegaki with more than two children is entitled to get social benefits. But is it … politically correct? And thus by OGA which is the poorest social fund in Greece? So far the “Queen” of Greek TV has not commented on the issue. Probably she is furiously trying to figure out who-the-hell leaked the documents to the press!
For Greek standards, it is as if Oprah would get a social benefit…
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In the Netherlands they do it: from 0-16 years for each child irrespective of income. And she probably has OGA like a lot of Greeks, because she has a goravi and her official place where she lives is there too. So she pays this 10% of the premium amount that she would have to pay for TEBE. Nothing illegal as I understand it?
The trick around where you officially live is practised by a lot of people. Nice to have your official seat on an island. You keep your car registered there and pay less insurance. Your company is paying lower VAT and there are more benefits. (I see way too many Dodekanese numberplates around here).
I am impressed! You – as foreigner – know much more about ‘legal cheating’ than me – Greek. Probably you live longer here than I do
Thank you for the…. eh…. ‘compliment’??? But when you look around you… when you had to change from IKA to TEBE to OGA and back to TEBE because they kept on changing the rules and you had to pay every time 3 months in advance without being insured, so you had to get an extra health insurance from abroad and payed all this time double… then you begin to understand how at least THIS part of the Greek State is functioning.
That’s why I have no hope for this country, respect. the people
Does Menagaki really make 80,000 Euros a month? Seems hard to believe because how can anyone afford to pay her that since Greece is a realatively small country and even with advertisers paying for it, it seems like the return on investment would be small.
Sure, if it was in the USA, it makes sense that she could draw that salary, but in a little backwater country like Greece, it seems weird to me.
So, again, who pays for this and does the channel and advertising make enough profit to pay her this salary?
there have been newspaper editors who earned 50,000 euro per month. In TV people earn much more (at least they did before the crisis). I don’t know ho wmuch she earns in fact, STAR reported so – star is a very lifestyle & filsm channel. There are many ways (bank loans for example) that fed the media here. now that banks do not give loans, th emedia are in dire situation. also vecause ads decreased.
ALTER, one of the commercial channels here, filed recently for protection against bankruptcy. It owes more than 500 million euro to it’s creditors. 500 Million! In a small market like Greece. How does one do that? Well, salaries like Ms. Menegaki get you there relatively quickly.
ok, we can’t blame Menegaki for everything. But you’re right in terms of the ‘unclear finance channels ‘ of the media here
When I was here in the 1980s, people used to say that TV personalities were just government employees and made the typical small meager salary. In fact, I had heard that if someone made 1,000 dollars a month in Greece, they were living large, so I’m wondering when did the jump to mega salaries start. Were people in 1980s making tons of money like they do now? I’m not questioning at this point, just trying to figure out if they were always making money and I just didn’t know?
it has to do with the fact that there was no private TV in the 1980s, it came up in the beginning of the 1990s.