By Vangelis Dourakis

End of season for the A21 Children Allowance: Payment of First Dose for the current year was and The last one made in cash. From the next the allowance will be granted through a prepaid card. In any case, the platform for submitting applications has again opened, giving those who have lost the original deadline to now claim the subsidy the opportunity. Indeed, if their request is approved, they will receive the dose they lost retrospectively.

Specifically, the beneficiaries of the A21 Child Braise for 2025 may submit their application to the HIPPA platform www.idika.gr or through the website www.opeka.gr, using personal passwords to taxisnet.

Applications for the second installment and retrospectively

The platform will remain open and accept new applications by April 30 2025 and 18.00.

Applications can be submitted by those who have not done so far and therefore lost the payment of the first year for this year. The reinforcement already given is not lost and paid retroactively.

The eligible amount will be calculated on the basis of of dependent children to be stated in the A21 year application 2025 and of total family income that the beneficiaries had the tax year 2023.

After submitting this year’s income tax return, they will be taken into account for the calculation of the eligible amount The income of the tax year 2024.

Among the conditions that will be checked for child allowance are: Attendance of dependent children in compulsory training – From pre -toddler to high school – as well as the A profitness of attendance.

In the A21 application must be registered in the relevant fields:

• The details of the school unit,

• The class and registry number of the child attending compulsory education.

If all the details of the student are crossed, the application may proceed normally. If not intersected, it appears on a note and the applicant is required to attach to the A21 online application the necessary supporting document.

To complete the application must be submitted permanently and have been approved. Application that has been temporarily stored shall be considered non -submitted and not taken into account.

Finally the cash for child allowance

From the next payment of the A21 allowance, however, At the end of May the era of payment in cash ends: Beneficiaries should have obtained a prepaid card, which will be credited half the amount of the allowance, with the other half entering the bank account normally.

In order to repay the beneficiaries of the children’s bonus allowance, therefore, until then they must do the relevant procedures for the issuance of a prepaid card.

Specifically, the process of issuing the prepaid card is done through new integrated information system (IIS), which has been created specifically for the needs of the program (https://prepaid.minscfa.gov.gr/).

The Information System is interoperating with the DBA and OPECA databases and recovers IBAN and the address you have already stated in your applications for benefits.

Then you are sent an e -mail to you to enter the new system within five (5) dayN to check the correctness of the data and, if you wish, to change them.

If you do not take any action within the aforementioned period, your application is submitted with the information recovered by the bodies (DIPAA and/or OPECA) to the IBAN payment service provider.

The payment service provider proceeds to check the application and then issuing and sending the prepaid card.