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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November 6, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
The platform for applying for this year’s heating oil subsidy opens on Monday, November 7, on the website of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). The subsidy is expected to benefit 1.3 million residents, with 90% receiving 800 euros and the remaining 10%, from areas that tend to experience …
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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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October 10, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A “civil war” has broken out in Greece’s apartment buildings on the crucial issue of heating in winter as the energy prices, that is heating oil and natural gas, keep on rising. The issue has already called in meeting in apartment buildings where home owners, tenants and landlords have to …
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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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September 4, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis urged Greeks to seek alternative ways for heating, warning that the upcoming winter will be worse than the one in 1942, when the country suffered famine due to occupation by the German Nazis in WWII. Heating oil is currently 6 times cheaper than natural gas. the …
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March 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly man in Thessaloniki saw his home being destroyed by a fire in the early morning hours of Thursday. The man, who could not afford heating, was burning papers to warm his hands in the cold March night. Speaking to media after the disaster, the tenant of an apartment …
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September 22, 2021
Economy
Almost 3 million European Union workers can’t afford to heat their homes amid a rise in energy prices, according to a labor organization’s study released Wednesday. The European Trade Union Confederation, which represents 45 million members, said that 15% of the EU’s working poor – the equivalent of 2,713,578 people …
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February 1, 2019
Social
One in four Greeks cannot afford to heat their home sufficiently, the Eurostat announced following data collected as part of the annual EU survey 2017 on income and living conditions in the bloc. Based on the report, 25.7% of Greeks said they were not able to keep their home adequately …
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February 23, 2018
Social
The living and working conditions of the millions of people living in the Attica prefecture and Athens have been surveyed by Marc on behalf of the Attica Regional Authorities in cooperation with the Labor Center of Athens. The results draw – as no otherwise expected – a grim picture of …
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November 11, 2013
Society
I am so glad that somebody sat down and summarized what KTG has been reporting about for the last three years. Τhat is all the reporting about taxes and more taxes, and regular and emergency taxes that become permanent taxes. Not to forget the social security contributions and the income …
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February 4, 2013
Society
Poverty has no borders and scruple. A home owner in Patras, western Greece, was complete astonished to find out, his former tenants had used some of the doors of the house but also the doors of kitchen cupboards to feed their stove. Apparently because the tenants family had no money to …
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December 19, 2012
Society
Thirty-one percent of Greece’s population was living near the poverty line in 2011 and 15.2 percent was just scraping by on a small income, the European Statistical Agency, Eurostat, said in a report released on Monday. The percentage of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion ranks Greece behind …
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