How to calculate the amount of aid – The beneficiaries and the application process
The decision was published in the Government Gazette the electricity subsidy and the return of up to 600 euros from the adjustment clause.
The decision describes all the details about the beneficiaries, the amounts and the key dates.
Read the entire Government Gazette here
A necessary condition for the beneficiary to receive the financial support is to submit an application to a special application of the Single Digital Portal of Public Administration (gov.gr – EIP).
The application will start operating after June 14, 2022. The application for financial assistance will be submitted until 30 June 2022, while the payment of the beneficiaries is made after the completion of the submission and examination of the applications.
The financial support is provided to natural persons, tax residents of Greece, with annual net family income after deduction of taxes, tax year 2020, up to 45,000 euros.
If the taxpayer submits a tax return for the first time for the tax year 2021, the net family income after taxes, tax year 2021 is taken into account. The income data of the tax year 2020, are taken into account, as declared until May 1, 2022. The data tax residence as well
and income for the tax year 2021, are taken into account, as stated, until the time of application for financial assistance to each beneficiary.
Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries of the aid are household electricity consumerswho are contracted to floating invoices electricity supply prices adjusted on the basis of the wholesale electricity purchase price. The aid concerns the consumption account of the main residence, as well as the rented residence of dependent children of the household studying inside.
To receive financial support, each power supply number, for each month, declared by a single beneficiary. In case a power supply number for a month is declared by two or more beneficiaries, the procedure of distribution of the aid per beneficiary is followed.
Procedure
For the submission of the application, the beneficiary, after being authenticated with the personal codes of taxisnet, enters the application and requests the receipt of the financial aid:
(a) for in-house electricity bills relating to the principal residence of the beneficiary; and
(b) for household electricity bills relating to the rented residence of dependent children of the family studying in the
interior.
In case of natural persons or members of the household residing in the same main house during the reference period, the application for financial assistance is submitted by one of the members. In addition, in case of obligation to submit a joint tax return for the tax year 2021 by the two spouses who are not separated, based on the data of the Taxpayer Registry of AADE, as formed on May 1, 2022, the application for financial assistance is submitted by one of the two spouses and at the request of the other spouse, it is automatically rejected by the application.
The applicant is required to confirm or update his / her main residence details for the reference period. More specifically, the following are followed
steps:
i. They are derived from the data of the last definitively submitted income tax return, ie the tax year 2021 if submitted, or the tax year 2020 if the tax return 2021 has not yet been submitted, all the data concerning the main residence from Table 5 of the tax return (address – streets that include the square-power supply number and all the codes related to the main residence, ie 208, 204, 808, 203, 240, 211, 212, 231, 213, 214 and 215) .
ii. In case the main residence of the beneficiary remains the same as the above, for the period from December 1, 2021 to May 1, 2022, the beneficiary confirms that the above elements of main residence are valid for the entire above period.
iii. In case the beneficiary has changed main residence in relation to the above, during the period 1 December 2021 to 1 May 2022, fill in the respective full details for the main residence that lived on 1 December 2021, 1 January 2022, 1 February 2022, the 1st of March 2022, the 1st of April 2022 and the 1st of May 2022.
How to calculate the financial aid
To calculate the amount of aid per beneficiary, the amount of aid for each household utility bill issued between 1 December 2021 and 31 May 2022 is initially calculated.
The amount of aid per account current is calculated as a percentage 60% on the resulting positive balance after deduction from the amount of the adjustment clause of the account of deduction amounts:
a) which has been granted by the special account with the name “Energy Transition Fund” of article sixty-first of law 4839/2021 and
(b) already provided by the electricity suppliers on the energy consumption of the account.
In case the bill does not concern a floating electricity supply invoice that is adjusted based on the wholesale electricity purchase price, the applicant is not entitled to receive aid.
Also, in case the account does not concern a household benefit, the applicant is not entitled to receive aid.
For floating tariffs for electricity supply adjusted on the basis of the wholesale electricity market price, which do not indicate separately in their charges the amount corresponding to the adjustment clause, the amount of the adjustment clause is imputedly calculated by the energy supplier, as the amount resulting from the deduction from the amount of the energy supply charge based on consumption, item energy bill for which the price of 120 euros per MWh is taken into account.
Discounts granted by electricity suppliers include any form of rebate that depends on the energy consumption of the bill, including consistency rebates. Fixed amount discounts that are not calculated on the energy consumed are excluded.
After calculating the amount of aid per account, the power supply number of each account is matched with the applications submitted by the beneficiaries, regarding the power supply number of their main residence and the electricity supply number of the rented residences of the children studying in-house. .
This is followed by the following breakdown of the amount of aid per beneficiary, for each month of the reference period:
a) In case a benefit for the specific month has been declared by a single natural person, this natural person is the beneficiary and receives the full amount of the aid of the accounts for this benefit that have been issued within the month.
b) In case a benefit for the specific month has been declared by two or more natural persons, the VAT number of the obligor is checked, to whom each bill is issued by the energy supplier in the said month. The beneficiary is the natural person who has the VAT number to which the invoice is issued and receives the aid for the said account. In the event that the VAT number to which the invoice is issued does not correspond to any of the applicants, the amount of aid for that account shall be divided equally among the applicants.
The financial aid is granted to beneficiaries who were charged with a total increase in electricity bills issued within the reporting period, according to the above calculation, for an amount over 30 euros and can not exceed 600 euros per beneficiary.
The above amount of financial assistance is tax-free, inalienable and unsecured in the hands of the State or third parties, by way of derogation from any general and special provision, are not subject to any withholding, fee or contribution including the special solidarity contribution, is not bound by certified debts to the tax administration and the State in general, municipalities, regions, insurance funds or credit institutions and is not calculated at the income threshold for the payment of any social or welfare benefits.
Procedure for granting financial support and informing beneficiaries
The amount of financial support is credited to the beneficiary’s bank account stated in the application, by the Greek State Societe Anonyme “Information Society SA” (IS MA).
After the completion of the calculation of the amount of aid per beneficiary, the K.T.P. Μ.Α.Ε. forward the approval decision to the credit institution or financial institution, subject to appropriate technical and organizational measures, the name, surname, e-mail address, mobile telephone number of the beneficiary and the number of his personal bank account for the purpose of his credit amount of the financial assistance, and then transfers to the credit institution or financial institution the amount of money corresponding to the beneficiary.
Following the payment of the aid, the K.T.P. Μ.Α.Ε. sends an automated message to the e-mail address of the beneficiary declared in the application for financial assistance, with the amount of aid paid to him or information in case of rejection of the application
