Until Monday, February 5, 2024 the deadline for submitting applications for the granting of emergency aid to citizens who use electricity for their heating is extended (ie air conditioning, electric stoves, etc.).

They sign the relevant decision the Minister of Environment and Energy, Thodoros Skylakakis and the Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, Alexandra Sdoukou.

Applications are submitted by potential beneficiaries, electronically, through a specialized platform of AADE(https://www1.aade.gr/gsisapps/oilbftelectric/login/login.htm), using TAXISnet codes.

It is reminded that the extraordinary aid for heating with electricity concerns natural personssingle or married or widowed or cohabiting or separated or divorced, who use electricity to heat their main residence (whether it is privately owned or leased or granted free of charge).

Beneficiaries are excluded from the granting of the emergency heating aid with electricity:

  1. Heating allowance from other sources (e.g. oil, natural gas, etc.), whose applications have been approved for the winter season 2023-2024, as well as
  2. of the Social Household Tariff (CTO).

It is clarified how it is not acceptable to use the same electricity supply number for more than one beneficiary for the same period of timeas well as for more than one application from the same A.F.M.

Beneficiaries receive extraordinary aid, which ranges from 45 to 480 euros for the entire period of application of the measure (1.1.2024 to 31.3.2024). The amount is granted to a against or clearing account, which is issued by the respective supplier.

For this purpose data related to Postal Codes are used, the municipalities and settlements of the country. These are the degree days, which are an indicator of the severity of a region’s climate and are used to calculate the heating loads of a building and the required energy consumption for its heating.

The criteria for granting the emergency aid are extremely broad. Specifically, those interested should meet the following conditions:

a. Income:

The their annual total family incomeregardless of its source of origin, actual and notional, to amount to:

  • Up to 16,000 euros for an unmarried debtor or a widowed or separated debtor.
  • Up to 24,000 euros for a married debtor or married persons or parties to a cohabitation agreement who submit a separate tax return or married persons who submit a tax return based on point b of paragraph 4 of article 67 of Law 4172/2013 or natural persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement and submitted a joint tax return without children, which is increased by 5,000 euros for each child.
  • Up to 29,000 euros for a single-parent family, which is increased by 5,000 euros for each child after the first.

To determine the marital status, the number of children, as well as the income criteria, the data of the Personal Income Tax Return of the tax year 2022 are used.

In addition, as long as it is a business activity, the total gross income from the business activity of the debtor, spouse or cohabiting party and dependent children, according to Law 4172/2013, must not exceed 80,000 euros.

b. Real estate:

The total value of the real estate, as it appears from the act of administrative determination EN.F.I.A. of the year 2023, debtor, spouse or cohabiting partner and dependents, must not exceed 200,000 euros for singles, widowed or separated debtors and correspondingly the amount of 300,000 euros for married or cohabiting partners and single-parent families .