More than 1.5 million applications have already been made for the fuel subsidyfor Fuel Passsaid the Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierrakakis in a TV interview on SKAI and the show “Unmatched”.
«1.2 million have already been sent to credit and banking institutions to be credited to iban or to issue prepaid cards. The interesting thing is that about 30% of the total number approved is for cards instead of iban credit. And this is an interesting change because prepaid cards on mobile phones have the dimension that they are for payment only for this purpose.“, He stated characteristically.
The Minister underlined that “the total number of beneficiaries is about 3 million, the platform is open for all VAT, all the information is on voucher.gov.gr, so that the citizens can see if they are beneficiaries and beyond that I think it is an interesting approach in terms of how we can now use such technologies and tools in welfare policy».
Mr. Pierrakakis even commented that the precursor of this initiative was the Freedom Pass “and we had found that again there was a connection with specific stores, with specific parts of the economy. From there and beyond we are managing a situation, which has great difficulties, we are in a very critical period in relation to the energy crisis and the government is trying to do the maximum, the best possible».
In addition, he referred to the new services prepared by the Ministry of Digital Governance and which will be announced in the near future, such as the car transfers, real estate transfers, start-up of a sole proprietorship, but also preventive medicine, which is the next step decided by the Ministries of Health and Digital Governance. In the coming months there will be an initiative to send referral examinations, “first will be the mammograms where we will be able to send examination referrals to those interested so that they can […] to do specific tests. We are taking a big initiative on the one hand to use the technological means we have and to enrich them with financial possibilities with the program “Sp. Doxiadis” so that we can invite the people to take free preventive examinations».
Concerning on the subject of cyber attacksthe Minister stressed that “we will encounter problems in the coming years in this area, there will be cyber attacks, the issue is to be as few as possible and as short-range as possible. The point is not to let them happen but to have them as small as possible when and if they happen, to prevent as many as we can and even if they do happen to have little effect. So we do a series of actions, we have published the national cybersecurity strategy, it is something that concerns us every day».
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