Yπ. Work: Detailed measures for families, low-income retirees, people with disabilities

In its information note, the Ministry of Labor further explains the measures which announced the Ministry of Education:

According to the Ministry. Labor, aid is granted to our weakest fellow citizens to deal with the rising prices of goods and energy, which will be paid before Easter, as follows:

• An additional one and a half monthly installment of child allowance is granted in April, to the March beneficiaries (ie installment corresponding to 1.5 months). The amount of aid is 105 or 63 or 42 euros for each child for the first and second child, depending on the amount of income, and 210 or 126 or 84 by the third and for each subsequent child. The beneficiaries amount to 625,000, with more than 1 million children and the cost is estimated at 97.5 million euros.

• Aid of 200 euros to 676,735 low-income retirees. Beneficiaries are (as in December) retirees who have an annual individual taxable income for the tax year 2020 up to 7,200 euros (600 euros per month), an annual family taxable income of up to 14,400 euros and the total taxable value of real estate does not exceed 200 euros. The cost is estimated at 135 million euros.

• Aid of 200 euros to 34,964 uninsured seniors at a cost of 7 million euros.

• Aid of 200 euros to 166,982 recipients of disability benefits at a cost of 33.4 million euros.

• Double installment of the minimum guaranteed income to 241,281 beneficiaries of the minimum guaranteed income, at a cost of 50.9 million euros.

Total cost: 324 million euros to 1.7 million beneficiaries. About 1.4 million households with more than 3.2 million members benefit from these measures.