In the payment of the extraordinary personal difference allowance of 258 million euros EFKA services are progressing. Payments will be made gradually starting today, Thursday, March 30 in the afternoon and will be completed tomorrow, Friday, March 31. Beneficiaries of this extraordinary allowance are pensioners with a personal difference, who at the same time have a sum of main pensions (net amount before tax) up to 1,600 euros.

The amount of the personal difference allowance is scalable, from 200, 250, up to 300 euros. The amount of the aid depends on the amount of the pension and on whether during the previous period the pensioner saw some kind of benefit from the increases given.

The majority of pensioners will receive 300 euros, namely:

-Pensioners with amounts from 800 to 1000 euros, who did not get an increase at all.
– Pensioners with amounts up to €800, who received the Christmas punctuality check of €250, but did not get any increase at all.
– Pensioners with a sum of main pensions of 1,000 to 1,100 euros, who also did not receive an increase due to a personal difference and had little benefit from the abolition of the solidarity levy.

250 euros will be given to:

– Pensioners with a sum of pensions between 1,100 and 1,600 euros, who did not receive increases and had little benefit from the abolition of the solidarity levy
– Pensioners with a sum of pensions up to 1,100 euros, who did not see the full increase of 7.75% but got a smaller increase of up to 3.49%.

200 euros will be given to:

– Pensioners with pensions from 1,100 to 1,600, who received an increase of up to 3.49%.
– Pensioners with a sum of pensions up to 1,100 euros, who got an increase from 3.5% to 6.9%.