At the reveal of the show “Where there is Greece“, where a family with many children complains that the state cut off their annual allowance for large children of 2,800 euros, because they received increases in their salaries of 1,000 euros a year, he answered speaking to the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family, Sophia Zacharakis.

“We have to see the golden balance between available budget that is running out and income criteria. If we go by the logic of the debate “to raise 1,000 or 1,500 euros”, we have to see where we will end up”, he initially pointed out, referring to welfare benefits that were given through OPECA and the previous organizations and which reach up to 27,000 euros depending on the number of children. “So we have to see how far we can go, how much further it can go. It has to do with the conversation that has started in recent years about where benefits end and disposable income begins,” he reiterated.

At the same time, Mrs. Zaharaki described the specific issue as complex, assuring that the government will continue to exhaust the margin of whatever available income it has to return to the citizen.

Nationwide expansion for ‘Neighborhood Nannies’ – Criteria for ‘My House 2’

The minister then referred to “Caretaker of the Neighborhood” and on “Neighborhood Nannies“, two more actions that are in the works by the government. “These are within the year,” he said “our main thing to know is the mortgage. We are now expanding “Dada” throughout Greece. It started as a pilot, it was a program that we increased to 8 million euros because we saw the very warm reception it had, and from May it will exist in all the municipalities of Greece. The “Caregiver” will come towards the end of the year, it is not the “Personal Assistant”.

Regarding the program “House 2“, he emphasized that from next week on January 15 the applications will run. “If you are up to 50 years old, you can apply. A house you are looking for is 150 square meters, not counting the extra spaces, and we have also increased the income. Where it was 16,000 euros, “House 2” is 20,000 euros or if you are a single-parent family, you have an income of 31,000 euros and 5,000 euros per child. So I would say that the income per single parent is increasing quite a bit. If we have a family with two children, it is 28,000 euros and 4,000 euros per child