The first aid payments continue, following the completion of the submission of applications and the relevant cross-checks made by the officers of the general secretariat of Natural Disaster Recovery and State Aid of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.

Today, new first aid payments were made to those affected by the floods that occurred at the beginning of September in various areas of Thessaly, but also in Central Greece. Specifically, today the payment of 2,542,062 euros was made, which, as the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection emphasizes in its announcement, given the holiday of the banking system, will appear in citizens’ bank accounts on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

In particular, today, a payment of 44,062 euros was made to 11 natural persons to deal with basic living needs and simple repair work and/or the replacement of household goods in areas affected by the floods of September 2023. These are payments that resulted from the intersections they made the officers of the general secretariat of Natural Disaster Recovery and State Aid in the applications submitted to the first aid platform, arogi.gov.gr. At the same time, payments of 5,000 euros were made to 1 first aid beneficiary in exchange for housing assistance. Finally, payments of 2,493,000 euros were made to 488 businesses as first aid against the subsidy of businesses affected by the floods, which include livestock units and agricultural holdings, following the completion of the second round of applications.

Cumulatively, therefore, to date, within the framework of the first and second cycles of first aid, 171,234,381 euros have been paid to 48,326 cases of applicants – be it households, businesses, agricultural holdings and livestock units – affected by the unprecedented flooding phenomenon which affected Thessaly, but also other areas.

The cross-checking process of the applications submitted, in the context of the first and second cycle, on the first aid platform, arogi.gov.gr, continues and new submissions will follow in the coming days.

In particular, the payment of the second cycle of the first aid to agricultural holdings and livestock units continues depending on the flow of data from the region of Thessaly and the region of Central Greece. The officers of the State Aid Directorate of the General Secretariat for Natural Disaster Recovery and State Aid are in close communication with the Regions and the competent services, so that the work of the committees and state aid levels of the Regions can progress, with the result that in the coming days we will have new first aid supplies.