January 30, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Dozens of elderly expatriates from Georgia received or attempted to receive an uninsured elderly person’s allowance with forged certificates from the Greek Social Solidarity Privileged Benefits Organization. A total of 85 men and women have been referred to be tried at the Three-member Criminal Court of Thessaloniki. According to the …
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January 22, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The government announced on Monday a series of measures for new parents with the aim to address the demographic problem in Greece as well as challenges posed by the current cost-of-living crisis. The measures are one-off allowance to new parents and thus retroactive from 1.1.2023. In fact, the measures are …
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November 8, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
The electronic platform for the submission of applications for the heating allowance has opened on November 8, 2023. Beneficiaries have a December 8 deadline to submit applications. The first part of the payment of the heating allowance will be paid by December 22, which this year ranges from 100 to …
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July 24, 2023
Economy
An allowance of 534 euros per month for up to three months will be provided for employees of businesses that were forced to close due to the fires, Labor Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Monday. “We have already submitted an amendment to the finance ministry bill, according to which businesses, …
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October 24, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
A Joint Ministerial Decision which will specify the requirements for the heating allowance which will start to be paid a few while before Christmas and will conclude at the end of April 2023 will be issued this week. The total amount to be allocated reaches 500 mln euros along with …
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September 12, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Two days after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced at the International Fair of Thessaloniki a series of support measures for the society and some professional sectors amid the energy crisis, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras specified the measures on Monday morning. Top on the agenda of government support and the society …
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April 20, 2022
Economy, Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis finally announced the much anticipated increase of the minimum wage as well as an increase of the unemployment allowance. “My decision today addresses the low-incomers and the unemployed,” he said in his televised message. The PM’s pre-Easter gift on Holy Wednesday is 50 euros more per …
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March 17, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras announced the details of the four new support measures to households and businesses. The 3-month package with a total cost of 1.1 billion euros for some 3,200,000 includes a one-off allowance of 200 euros, subsidy for fuel and electricity bills. The package aims to strengthen mainly …
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January 29, 2020
Social
With overwhelming majority the Greek Parliament approved the draft law awarding a one-off benefit of 2,000 euros for every child born in Greece as of January 1, 2020. The allowance will be paid in two equal installments of 1,000 euros in the first and sixth month after the birth. Eligible …
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February 26, 2018
Greece, Politics
Alternate Labor Minister Rania Antonopoulou is in the middle of a scandal as she has been receiving a rental allowance of 12,000 euros per year. The allowance has been approved in September 2015, ever since she was appointed Minister in the Greek government. This is a normal procedure if the …
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April 25, 2017
Social
Firefighters transferred to the Fraport airports of the cosmopolitan islands Mykonos and Santorini are literally struggling to survive because the low wages do not allow them a descent living. They sleep on mattresses on the floor, inside fire trucks or even ambulance vehicles, they can hardly get a meal for …
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April 20, 2017
Economy
Only one in ten unemployed Greeks receives the unemployment allowance of 360 euro per month. Each unemployed remains out of the labor market for more than two and a half years. At the same time, 350,000 families have no working member. The latest data released by Greek Labor Agency (OAED) …
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October 30, 2015
Society
This year’s ‘heating allowance’ for the poor and the needy will be cut by 50%. The total amount from the state budget will drop from €210 million last winter down to just €105 million. Blame the austerity, the bailout programs, the prior actions and the shortage of liquidity. In the …
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December 20, 2013
Society
The Greek state prepared an ugly Christmas surprise to 60,000 people who had been receiving poverty allowance and are below 65 years old. Applying one more loan agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) conditions, the lavish welfare benefits (EKAS) of 400-600 euro per month will be cut. Thousands of retirees under age …
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May 21, 2013
Society
A prosecutor at a court in Chania, proposed a two-year prison sentence for a 90-year-old widow. The woman had illegally collected allowance by the social security fund IKA, after the death of her husband. For seven consecutive years, the widow received allowance payments totaling 67,000 euro, in addition to pension …
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March 1, 2012
Economy, Society
Greece rushed to obey to its lenders dictates ahead the Eurogroup meeting on Thursday afternoon. Just a couple of hours earlier the Ministries of Finance and Labour had hastily signed an agreement that the unemployment benefit will undergo reductions of 22% as the minimum wages. Unemployed Greeks will receive (ridiculous) €359 per …
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October 21, 2011
Society
After two days of strikes in public sector Greeks rushed to state banks and unemployment offices. Payday! Where pensions and unemployment allowance are paid on certain days of the month. Older neighbors reported that they had to wait 2-3 hours to get their pensions, in the average 600 EUR. But worst …
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July 13, 2011
Society
This is a real great news in times of austerity, recession and depression! A great relief for all jobless in Greece. The monthly allowance for unemployed is to increase from 454.25 to 461.5 euro. The amazing amount of €7.25 more per month can supply the jobless with one chicken and a …
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