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Tsipras’ Christmas bonus to low-pensioners angers Germany

December 14, 2016 Economy 9

Germany has asked the institutions involved in Greece’s aid program to assess whether Greek reforms are compatible with its bailout obligations and wants a quick answer to avoid delaying short-term debt measures, a finance ministry spokesman said. “We expect swift clarification on this issue so that the implementation of short-term …

Gov’t gives low-pensioners extra social drops to swallow the bitter pill of being deprived of poverty allowance

July 28, 2016 Society Comments Off on Gov’t gives low-pensioners extra social drops to swallow the bitter pill of being deprived of poverty allowance

Greek government will “compensate” with a total of 50 million euro the poverty allowance (EKAS) cuts to more than 158,000 low-pensioners who saw the little monthly extra being removed from their income since June. The EKAS cuts is a bailout agreement precondition since the 2. bailout of 2012. In the …

Greek Gov’t Partner Kouvelis: “The Risk of Bankruptcy Still Existent”

July 19, 2012 Economy, Politics 2

“The risk of bankruptcy in Greece is still existent,” Fotis Kouvelis, leader of Democratic Left and coalition government partner, warned on Thursday. Speaking to private Skai TV Kouvelis said, “It is an extremely difficult situation, we are in deep recession and nothing is given.” Talking about a comprehensive government plan for the next four …

Mytilene: Quatriplegic Man “Handed Over” to Insurance Fund, As Family Has No Economic Means…

June 6, 2012 Society Comments Off on Mytilene: Quatriplegic Man “Handed Over” to Insurance Fund, As Family Has No Economic Means…

Under the burden of heavy economic hardships and cuts in social welfare benefits, the family of a quadriplegic man saw no other solution: they loaded the 43-year-old man in a borrowed carrier and transported him from Plomari village to the island’s capital city. There, the family briefed the IKA directors, that it cannot …

Pool Billiard Virtuoso Gets €700 … Blindness Allowance

May 14, 2012 Economy, Society 2

One of the many Greek miracles! A man has been receiving a 700-euro allowance on a monthly basis for being 100% blind. “What’s wrong with that?” one may ask. Nothing would be the answer if the man wasn’t a local champion in pool billiard! The man, who also happens to …

Dozens Greeks Willing to Return Illegal Social Benefits

March 27, 2012 Society 5

Dozens Greeks are apparently willing to return the social benefits that they illegally obtained fro several years after several government bodies run a severe cross-checking. Speaking to VIMA FM, Athens deputy mayor Kalliopi Giannopoulou said that these false “beneficiarie”s seek the municipality and request to return the money in installments. However, no solution …

Greek Miracles: Blinds Who See, Paralyzed Who Walk…

March 20, 2012 Economy, Society 17

I really didn’t know that Greece had such a healing climate. Apparently it does. And thus with the effect that blinds can see, and paralyzed can walk. This can be the conclusion when one reads the news about the scandal of ‘fake disabled’ Greek fraudsters who used to extort real social …

Fake Social Benefits: Greek “Party” Worth €111 Million

March 19, 2012 Society 7

It seems that it needed the Troika and two loan agreements with strict conditions to force Greece to finally proceed to a thorough control of the exploitation of social welfare benefits and allowances. In the recent census by the Health ministry that concluded last Friday, 37,000 beneficiaries did not participated in the state …

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