It opened today, September 1, 2023, and the digital platform is available to beneficiaries regarding the granting of income support to families – of at least two people – who live permanently in mountainous and disadvantaged areas for a period of at least two years, as announced by the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family and the supervised Organization of Welfare Benefits and Social Solidarity (OPEKA).

The amount of the aid is 600 euros per year if the applicant’s family income per year does not exceed 3,000 euros or 300 euros per year if the family income per year is between 3,000 and 4,700 euros.

The digital platform will remain open for submission of applications until 30/10/2023.

Citizens, whose 2022 application was rejected, must submit a new application for the year 2023in order to examine whether the conditions for granting income support are met.

Beneficiaries can also complete the process of submitting their request electronically with their personal TAXIS codes.

Subsequently, automatic checks and cross-checks of the applicant’s data will be carried out, while, at the end of the process, it will be sent to the interested party the relevant notification by e-mail or sms.

Any beneficiaries who wish can also contact the KEP of their region, where accredited employees will undertake to handle, instead of them, the entire process, up to the final filing and the relevant response.

Sthe framework of the digital application, the citizens, whose application for 2022 was approvedwill be invited, through automated e-mail and sms notifications, to complete and update – in the pending 2023 application – the additional data necessary for automatic cross-checks and then store them so that the necessary automatic checks can be performed.

After the electronic cross-checking of the data by the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE), they may, if required, be asked to fill in additional information in the application.

Then and in any case, they should proceed to finalize their application, so that it is considered in force for the year 2023.

The link to the digital platform for submitting applications is: https://www.gov.gr/ipiresies/ugeia-kai-pronoia/epidomata/eisodematike-eniskhuse-oreinon-e-kai-meionektikon-periokhon) or directly at https://oreina.epidomata.gov.gr/). The link is also accessible via the OPEKA website (opeka.gr) in the “Families” field.