“In the next few days our disabled fellow citizens can submit their applications on the platform for accessibility that is expected to be put into operation. Grant amount to and 14,500 euroswith 50% down payment, they will receive 2,500 beneficiaries To make construction interventions in its home, public spaces or even in their workplace, “the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family, Domna Michaelidou, said today on the OPEN television station.

On the “Accessibility at Home” program, Mrs Michaelidou said: “Eligible expenditure include Interventions in the main residence, professional space and public spaces of apartment buildings. Each beneficiary will be able to use the money in combination in all three spaces. Accessibility for people with disabilities is a fundamental prerequisite for creating an open and inclusive society. “

Interventions include:

– Configuration technical work,

– Installation of ramps and lips,

– placement of automation and special equipment, as well as

– The remuneration of engineer to certify the completion of the tasks.

According to the program, The highest grant amount reaches up to € 14,500, 12,000 euros for motor disability, 5,000 euros for sensory disability and € 14,500 for a combination of motor and sensory disability.

The beneficiaries

About the potential beneficiaries of the program are people with Disability rate of over 67%, residing in Greece and have an individual income of up to 60,000 euros.

The expansion of income criteria increases, at the same time, the ability of people with disabilities to join “home accessibility”. In this way the platform will bridge the distance between the needs of accessibility of people with disabilities and the funding required for the necessary interventions in homes and workplaces.

“Even if we have one of the highest, if not the highest rate of ownership in Europe, housing remains a big issue for the Greek household. And to deal with the mortgage there is no measure or a magic wand that the government could use. So we have more than 43 different measures, totaling 6.5 billion euros, which one or the other or even combine the policy for affordable housing, “the minister said.

The return of one rent from November 2025 for more than a million households, the 250 euro allowance to low -income pensioners and people with disabilities every November, my home II program, the 200 euro allowance given to public officials who are postponed to islands, mountainous and mountainous areas. Mr. Michaelidou.

He made a special reference to the relocation program to Evros: “We are immediately strengthening with a significant financial assistance of 10,000 euros, those who decide to relocate and stay in the municipalities of Orestiada, Soufli, Didymoteicho for more than two years. While the financial subsidy given by the state is also related to the multitude of household that goes for relocation. This platform opens for applications within the week. We start with this financial subsidy and we will see what other areas we can expand to help, with targeted decentralization policies, to the housing and the demographic issue. “