The 2022-2023 subsidy program for nurseries and daycare centers is in effect

The Joint Ministerial Decision was signed on Friday, July 29, which defines the criteria for inclusion in the program of subsidizing places in nurseries and daycare centers for the period 2022-2023. The deadline for submitting applications will be determined immediately by the Hellenic Society for Local Development and Self-Government.

The program “Promotion and support of children for their inclusion in preschool education as well as for the access of school-age children, teenagers and persons with disabilities to creative employment services” for the period 2022-2023 is announced with an increased overall budget (national and community participation ) amounting to 331.2 million euros. The increased budget will allow more children to be included in the program but also the increased – for the first time after ten years – compensation (voucher) in order to cover the increase in costs and ensure the provision of quality services. It is also pointed out that for the first time, the program of the next season (2022-2023):

-It is uniform for working parents in both the private and public sectors.

-Includes a new voucher category for parents with higher incomes up to 42,000 euros.

THE Domna MichailidouDeputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, said: “No child out of nursery school. With active social policies we fight poverty and social exclusion and strengthen as many families as we can. We leave no one behind.

For the first time with the new program:

1. The children themselves are the beneficiaries.

2. After a decade, a 10% increase is given to each voucher to ensure quality services.

3. Public employees and families with higher incomes are included in the same program, maintaining the increase in the number of children benefiting from the program by 20%”.

The care provision structures and the categories of children they can accommodate are as follows:

The selection criteria are economic and social and are as follows:

1. Financial criteria

A. The children of families with an annual income of 2021 have the right to participate in all the structures with full voucher value:

– up to €27,000 up to two children.

– up to €30,000 for three children.

– up to €33,000 for four children, all

– up to €36,000 from five children or more.

B. For the categories of structures A1, A2, B1 and B2 a voucher is provided if the annual family income of 2021 is:

– up to €33,000 up to two children.

– up to €36,000 for three children.

– up to €39,000 for four children, all

–up to €42,000 from five children or more.

It is pointed out that no income criteria apply for children with physical, intellectual, mental illnesses or disabilities or persons with disabilities; who submit applications for Integrated Care Nurseries. Similarly no income criteria apply for parents-legal representatives belonging to the category Disabled (with a disability rate of more than 67%), who apply for infant, nursery or daycare centers (Position Category A1, A2, B1, B2).

2. Social criteria. Additional scoring is provided for children in single-parent families, multiple children, parents and/or siblings with disabilities.

The following table shows the value of the vouchers according to the structure category. Line C shows the value of the reduced voucher for the highest income categories.

The submission of applications to EETAA will be done electronically by the parents or representatives of the children using the taxisnet codes. In the call for expression of interest that will be issued by EETAA, in addition to the deadline for submitting applications, the supporting documents that the interested parties must submit (also electronically) as well as the method of submitting objections etc. will be determined.