The online application is available for the new Special Assistance for Vulnerable Groups, in the amount of €718.50 (37.5 daily unemployment benefits), increased by 10% for each child, which came into force from 29.12.2023.

The new provision of DYPA aims to support particularly vulnerable social groups that do not establish a right to unemployment allowance for their smooth reintegration into the labor market, strengthening and expanding the DYPA social protection net for the unemployed.

Specifically, beneficiaries of the benefit are unemployed:
1. Parents of a single parent family

2. Released from prison

3. Women, victims of gender and/or domestic violence

4. Victims of violence – trafficking

5. Free from addictive substances.

Conditions for granting the aid are the unemployed:

✓ be registered in the DYPA Digital Register of the Unemployed with one of the above qualities when submitting their application

✓ have completed 1–75 days of insurance in the e-EFKA at any time in the last 2 years before submitting their application (or since the start of the sentence, for those released from prison)
✓ to have an income of up to €16,000 for singles, €24,000 for married people (increased by €5,000 per child) or €29,000 for single-parent families (increased by €5,000 for each child after the first) and at the same time, the amount of total gross income from business activity of the family not to exceed €80,000 and ✓ not to be simultaneously beneficiaries of regular unemployment allowance, long-term unemployed allowance, self-employed and independently employed aid and special seasonal aid. The benefit is granted once every 2 years.

Applications will be submitted exclusively online via gov.gr with TAXISnet codes, at the email address:

https://www.gov.gr/ipiresies/ergasia-kai-asphalise/anergia/eidiko-boethema-se-eualotes-koinonikes-omades

Specifically, the route is: Home / Work and insurance / Unemployment / Special assistance to vulnerable social groups. The new Special Assistance for Vulnerable Groups replaces the special assistance that was granted to a) subsidized unemployed who remained unemployed one month after the end of their subsidy, b) non-subsidized unemployed who remained unemployed for 3 months within the same calendar year, and c) non-subsidized unemployed subsidized unemployed who worked in enterprises that stopped their work or that exercised the right to suspend work.

For more information on the conditions for granting the new benefit and the required supporting documents, those interested can visit the DYPA website www.dypa.gov.gr.