e-EFKA: In less than a month the payment of funeral expenses

In less than a month from the date of the application, the funeral expenses are now paid, definitively closing a hearth of suffering for many years, as e-EFKA states in its announcement.

It is reminded that the beneficiaries can submit their application electronically from their computer by entering the national portal gov.gr (section “Family” subsection “Loss” and the e-EFKA website (www.efka.gov.gr), with simple steps and without physical presence in an e-EFKA store.

In detail, during 2021, a total amount of 92,993,121.47 euros was paid for funeral expenses to the accounts of 111,383 beneficiaries, with the amount of the benefit amounting to an average of 834.90 euros.

e-EFKA clarifies that the acceleration of the time achieved in the performance of funeral expenses is due to the digitization of the process.

At the same time, the final liquidation of the tens of thousands of pending cases that had accumulated in previous years was also completed. “A characteristic of the delay in payments in the past and the general inconvenience of citizens is that, until the operation of the electronic service, citizens waited from 8 to 12 months for the credit of funeral expenses to their accounts,” notes the organization.

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