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Silver Alert for UK pensioner John Tossell missing on Zakynthos

June 24, 2019 Social Comments Off on Silver Alert for UK pensioner John Tossell missing on Zakynthos

A pensioner from Bridgend, Wales in the UK, has been missing since middle of June on the Greek island of Zakynthos (Zante). John Tossell, 73, had gone for a walk to the monastery on Mount Skopos near the villiage of Argassi in Zante on Monday, June 17, but did not …

Court rules scrapping 13th & 14th pension was “illegal”, orders return of €11K

October 9, 2018 Social Comments Off on Court rules scrapping 13th & 14th pension was “illegal”, orders return of €11K

A first-instance court in Thessaloniki ruled that austerity cuts scrapping the 13th and 14th pensions were illegal and ordered the pension funds involved to return the money. The court ruled that 70-year-old IKA pensioner Odysseas Tsologiannis has to await for a total amount of 11,184 euros. The pensioner had filed …

Greece needs contributions by 10 workers to pay just one pension

March 14, 2017 Economy 1

We saw it coming when wages in Greece started to plummet. Now the data obtained by social security experts confirm it: A lot of people need to work in order to pay one single pension. It takes the contributions of ten workers to pay one single pension. Before the crisis …

Rhodes: Pensioner Deprived of Oxygen-Supply due to Insurance Fund Debts to Supplier

July 24, 2012 Society 8

A cry of agony, an appeal for urgent help comes from the island of Rhodes. A chronic-ill pensioner with damaged lungs has been deprived from life-supporting oxygen by the supplier. Emmanuil Taktikopoulos, 92, pensioner from Farmer’s Fund OGA impeached that the supplier took away the oxygen delivering machine because of OGA-debts to …

Athens: Pensioner Commits Suicide in the Middle of the Street

June 12, 2012 Society Comments Off on Athens: Pensioner Commits Suicide in the Middle of the Street

It was short before 7 o’ clock in the morning when the 75-year-old retired military man took his hunting rifle and left his home in the noble Kifissia suburb of north Athens. He walked some one hundred meters, set the rifle on the asphalt of the peaceful and picturesque street …

Athens: Teargas at Protesters Gathered to Commemorate Victim of Economic Crisis

April 4, 2012 Society 5

Greek police fired tear gas at demonstrators who gathered outside the parliament to commemorate the pensioner pharmacist who committed suicide on Wednesday morning – just a few meters away. Protesters chanted slogans against the government and some of them hurled smoke granades, stones and bitter organges at the riot policemen. They …

Court Rejects Complaint Filed by Pensioner, 90, To Be Exempted From Poll-Tax

November 16, 2011 Society 1

A court in Thessaloniki rejected the case of a 90-year-old woman to be exempted from the emergency property tax via electricity bills for social reasons. The bett-ridden woman who suffers from diabetes, filed the case claiming that she is unable to pay the emergency property tax amounting 1.100 euro because her …

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