‘Unfreezes’ the Uninsured Elderly Housing Assistance Allowance

Today, Monday 15 November, in the process of the Parliamentary Control, the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Domna Michailidou, stressed that the current Government managed to correct the mistakes in the absence of granting the Housing Assistance to the Elderly and the Uninsured. from 2018 until today.

As Domna Michailidou clarified, not only was the granting of the allowance to the elderly beneficiaries never stopped, but clear and objective criteria for its granting were established for the first time, with law 4756/2020. The previous absence of criteria for granting this allowance led for years to its frequent non-granting – as OPEC regional directorates could not assess whether the beneficiaries met the conditions.

In addition, in accordance with the law and for the purpose of transparent, effective and fast control, applications for the allowance will be submitted electronically, through the OPEC platform, which will start on January 1, 2022. In this way, citizens will not need provide supporting documents, if they can be obtained through the interconnection of the platform with other databases.

The Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs stated characteristically: “With transparency and objectivity, we correct the mistakes of the past, financially support the elderly and digitize the procedures. We upgrade the services for the Housing Assistance Allowance in order to minimize our “We continue to aim for social empowerment, but also for the reduction of extreme poverty. We are doing what is humanly possible to protect our most vulnerable fellow citizens.”