By Vangelis Dourakis

And while the prime minister has just recently announced the permanent payment of a 250 -euro allowance to low -income pensioners and the return of a lease to those who rent a house, the drawer has entered the plans for adjustment. 3 basic benefits. The A21 children allowance, the rent allowance and the minimum guaranteed income were to be adjusted, as announced at the TIF last September, but on the… course any changes. “They were frozen.”

Although initially foreseen within 2025 to be given “Brave” Increases to the beneficiaries of these benefits, the whole process “brake” because – as they all show – they should be combined with a series of ‘Cutters’ who were going to “throw” thousands of beneficiaries outside the aid.

Planning for benefits and ‘cutters’

The original plan predicted a general reform of the granting regime of the specific 3 basic benefits of OPECA (A21 children, minimum guaranteed income, rent allowance), however, where any increases would eventually see fewer beneficiaries in their bank accounts.

This is because according to the plan would be adopted “cutters” by tightening the aid criteria and at the same time the so -called configuration would go ahead. “National Register of Beneficiaries of Social Benefits”.

Increases in some benefits were important to those who were certainly … they did not lose because of the criteria were to be set.

In particular, at 250 euros (from 216 euros) it was expected to climb the Minimum Guaranteed Income Like the increase for each child to 75 euros (versus 50 euros), while the income criteria for granting it was increased proportionally.

The housing allowance of 70 euros was to be € 125 and 75 euros, depending on the income scale, and a mobile property criterion would also apply.

Regarding the A21 child allowance, beneficiaries belonging to the 1st Scale would see it rise to 75 euros (to 150 euros for the third child and the following), while beneficiaries of the 3rd income scale of 28 euros per child would receive 45 euros per child (90 euros).

However, in order to determine the beneficiary of the allowance, for the first time, specific “cutters” would be introduced: As for the child allowance, it would be adopted for a family. with two children real estate value at 220,000 euroswhile for cars the limit would go in IX above 1,600 cubic feet (perhaps even greater cubism), including the age and number of children.

The plan for a new National Registry of Social Benefits

The change of scenery would have contributed in addition to the introduction of more criteria for the granting of the various financial aid and the creation of more ‘National Register of Beneficiaries of Social Benefits’ in which all those who receive aid will be enrolled. This plan was in the “works” by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance.

The goal was – according to the government – to create a single database in which it will seem who gets and what, so that there is a comprehensive supervision and a rationalization of benefits.

Anyone who received from various sources of benefits that exceed a certain height (eg that of the minimum wage) would see them “clipped”.

A similar central benefit register exists in Great Britain and through it it will seek a overall overall for OPECA benefits, for benefits of the Ministry of Labor and for benefits such as heating to find out who gets what and why it gets it.

But as all show, the plan has been “frozen” and while it was to be adopted in 2025, it is postponed to 2026 and … if.