OPECA – In total 17 payments allowances and programs is expected to proceed on Holy Monday, April 29, the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family and the supervised Organization of Welfare Benefits and Social Solidarity (OPECA).
Specifically, the following benefits and programs will be paid in cash:
— Housing / rent allowance. The payment will concern citizens who have submitted the relevant application until March 31, 2024 and it has been approved.
— Housing Benefit
— Homogenous Allowance
— Allowance for Uninsured Seniors, law 1296/1982
— Minimum Guaranteed Income (formerly KEA), for those beneficiaries who have submitted the relevant application until March 31, 2024 and it has been approved.
— Disability and alimony
— Senior Social Solidarity Allowance
— Social Solidarity Allowance for the Greek minority in Albania
— Funeral expenses
— Birth Allowance. The retrospective increase in the birth allowance is paid to the persons who became beneficiaries of the birth allowance from 1.1.2023 onwards, i.e. to those persons whose children were born from 1.1.2023 onwards and whose application has been approved. The additional amount resulting from the increase in the birth allowance is paid to the beneficiaries without them submitting a new application or taking any other action as follows:
a) to the beneficiaries, who have received the full amount of the birth allowance, the additional amount is paid in one lump sum in the month of April 2024,
b) to the beneficiaries, whose application has been approved, without, however, having completed the payment of both (2) installments of the allowance, the additional amount is paid with the payment of the second installment.
– Red loans
— Protected children of those who died in natural disasters
— Bridge Program
— Undertaking Allowance
— Public Contribution Program for vulnerable debtors
— Personal assistant program.
— Mountain and disadvantaged areas allowance.
