On the table of the financial staff is the possibility of increasing the amount of child benefits from OPECA.
Competent sources report to newsit.gr that the issue of allowances is being examined in order to serve the basic principle that the state should know exactly who it supports and support those who should and as much as they should. The same sources add that the discussion on increasing the amount of benefits (OPEKA) is at the level of examining various scenarios, with the Ministry of Finance having the main say in the sense that it is responsible for the state budget and for the fiscal margins for increasing child benefits.
In any case, any decision not only from the Ministry of Finance, but also from the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family is expected after the summer, note the same sources with knowledge of the processes in the financial staff, adding that it is a difficult exercise anyway and needs a lot of processing and technical work.
It is recalled that in the information note issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs last December on the occasion of the presentation of the new tax bill for the self-employed https://www.newsit.gr/oikonomia/parathyro-ayksisis-ton-koinonikon-epidomaton-gia- tous-pragmatikous-dikaiouxous-kata-100-ekat-eyro/3928221/ it is characteristically stated that “the savings from the cessation of benefits (e.g. child benefits, housing benefits, minimum guaranteed income, etc.) to freelancers who until recently they indicated their incomes and therefore were not entitled to them, it is estimated at 100 million euros. This money will be allocated to the increase of these benefits for the real beneficiaries”.
In other words, the money that will be deducted in the future (ie based on future income statements) from granting child benefits to professionals who will not meet the conditions for them in the future, will be directed to those who will continue to be entitled to them. (based on their tax returns this year) even leading to an increase in the amount that will be allocated to them, possibly from the end of 2024 – beginning of 2025, note other newsit.gr sources
