Tag Archives: IKA

Seeking to have a molecular PCR-test on Christmas Day turned into a small adventure for a young man in Heraklio on the island of Crete. Twice tested positive on self-tests, the young man sought to confirm the illness with a PCR-test. Mission impossible. The 24-year-old man felt ill on Saturday …

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Those who have worked in Greece and have paid social security contributions for pension, can now check with the new electronic platform of Greece’s e-government how many pension stamps they have collected. The ATLAS application give this possibility to those insured at IKA (employees and part of self-employed), OAEE (self-employed), …

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Alarm bell is ringing for Greece’ social security funds. Arrears have reach €17 billion, in the third quarter of 2016 alone, debt rose to another 300 million euros. Unable to pay, debtors abandon also the arrangements they have made with the funds in order to pay their debts in installments. …

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Greece’s biggest Social Security Fund for the private sector IKA is seeking 200 million euros in order to be able to pay pensions for the following months until the end of the year. “The governing board of the Social Security Foundation (IKA) on Thursday rejected the management’s request for money …

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Everyone who lives in Greece knows that there are no jobs. And that if there are any, they are badly paid. Not so much because of the low salaries but because full-time jobs have become a rarity. Part-time jobs prevail and rule the Greek labor market. Almost half a million …

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Greece’s biggest insurance fund for the private sector IKA has apparently stopped issuing pensions due to retirement age, invalidity or death for all those below 67 years of age or for those with less than 4,500 working stamps. According to an exclusive story of daily Eleftheros Typos, IKA will not …

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It looks like a real revolutionary concept: Health Care should be provided to insured patients according to the contributions they have paid to social insurance funds. The idea was put indirectly on the table by Rovertos Spyropoulos, the general director of IKA, Greece’s biggest state insurance fund for the insured …

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Furious parents of a girl with chronic disability have reportedly beaten an IKA doctor in Patras because he refused to prescribe a special nutrition food for the bed-ridden child. The doctor was just following the guidelines of the Troika and the austerity Health ministers and the electronic prescription system that …

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Corruption prosecutors filled felony charges against Rovertos Spyropoulos, the chief administrator of Greece biggest social security fund IKA. According to Greek media, Spyropoulos allegedly helped a big supermarket chain to avoid paying 18,000,000 euro debts to IKA. Prosecutors accuse Spyropoulos of corruption and breach of trust against the Greek state. …

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Coalition government parties Nea Dimocratia of PM Antonis Samaras and PASOK of deputy Prime minister Evangelos Venizelos owe to Greece’s social security fund IKA 365,000 EUR in social contributions. Responding to a written question from MPs, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said checks on unpaid contributions in June revealed that New …

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It comes as expected: high unemployment rates ruin Greece’s social security funds. Yesterday I read that the 1,403,698 people without work (stand: June 2013) deprive the social security funds of 500 million euro in social security contributions on a monthly basis. Now the country’s biggest social security fund IKA – the fund for employees …

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Thousands of pensioners at the verge of brain-stroke and heart-attack formed long queues outside the offices of Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA on Friday morning. The troubled seniors had rushed to the local branches of IKA because their pension had been stopped. Just like that. The seniors must have been …

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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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Greek Public Power Company (DEH) cut on Tuesday morning the electricity supply to IKA branch in Acharnes suburb due to outstanding debts. Unconfirmed information claim the debts reach several thousands of euro. Speaking to news portal NewsIt, the branch director said they were looking into the problem of power outage. …

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Volos, Monday, 2 p.m.: A 63-year-old man entered Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA branch in Volos, went up to the roof of the building and jumped to death. Without leaving a notice, without to have previously contacted any of the IKA services. According to information of local media, the man …

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Andreas Martinis, ex president of private hospital “Errikos Dynan” and former president of Greek Red Cross has been arrested on Thursday morning for owing Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA, 6.6 million euro in employees contributions. Martinis was arrested inside the hospital and is expected to appear before the prosecutor in the …

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Employees at Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA will launch a nationwide 24-hour strike on Friday, December 7th 2012. The mobilization aims to protest the dismissal of 500 people who were transferred from the former state-owned Agricultural bank.      

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 No, it’s not a typo, but it’s certainly the joke of the next four centuries! Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA found a very generous way to help a private company to pay outstanding debts in social security contributions. The company will have the possibility to pay to IKA 300,000 euro in 4,700 …

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That was a dynamic action nobody had dared to expect from pensioners who proved more brisk and vital than one would have thought. Some 200 pensioners from Greece’s biggest insurance fund IKA stormed the Health Ministry in Athens on Tuesday morning, when they were denied a meeting with minister Andreas Lykourentzos. …

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One may pose right away the question:: only 10,000 fraudsters have been exploiting the money of debt-ridden, Greek social insurance funds? According to Greek media, the 7,500 fake pensioners have been illegally receiving money from the country’s biggest insurance fund IKA. Further 1,014 fraud case have been revealed at the Farmers’ Fund, OGA. …

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