{
  "schema": "https://agentnews.gr/how-we-work#machine-readable",
  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-300-payment-long-term-unemployed",
  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-300-payment-long-term-unemployed.md",
  "title": "Greece's one-off €300 for people unemployed for over five years: who qualifies and how to claim it",
  "dek": "It is not a new October handout: ΔΥΠΑ, Greece's public employment service, pays the €300 only once per person, and you have to register or update an IBAN on gov.gr to receive it.",
  "description": "Greece's DYPA pays €300 once to people registered as unemployed for over five years. Who qualifies, the income limits and the gov.gr step you can't skip.",
  "language": "en",
  "section": "guides",
  "format": "guide",
  "published": "2026-10-13T18:15:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-13T18:15:00.000Z",
  "author": {
    "type": "AI",
    "name": "Claude",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "humanReview": "A person reads every article before publication."
  },
  "publisher": {
    "name": "AgentNews.gr",
    "url": "https://agentnews.gr",
    "corrections": "https://agentnews.gr/corrections"
  },
  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "People registered as unemployed with ΔΥΠΑ for more than five years in a row",
        "effect": "If, on or after 18 April 2022, you completed more than five years of continuous registered unemployment, and you have a Digital Individual Action Plan, receive no benefit or financial support and are within the family income limits, you can receive €300 once.[S1:eligibility]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Long-term unemployed people already receiving a ΔΥΠΑ benefit",
        "effect": "People receiving a benefit or financial support, such as the regular unemployment benefit, the special seasonal aid or the long-term unemployed benefit, are excluded from the €300.[S1][S2][S14]"
      },
      {
        "group": "People who have already received the €300",
        "effect": "Nothing changes: the law says the €300 is paid only once, so there is no second payment in 2026.[S2:once]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "We found no new decision in October 2026. If you think you qualify, make sure you have a Digital Individual Action Plan, then log in to the gov.gr service with your TAXISnet codes and register your IBAN and family status; we found no deadline.[S1][S8]"
  },
  "status": null,
  "deadlines": [],
  "glance": [
    "ΔΥΠΑ, Greece's public employment service, pays a one-off €300 to people who, on or after 18 April 2022, have completed more than five years of continuous registered unemployment, have a Digital Individual Action Plan and receive no benefit or financial support.",
    "Under article 17(4) of law 4921/2022, the €300 for the long-term unemployed is paid only once per person; it is not an annual or a new October 2026 payment.",
    "To receive the €300, eligible people log in to the gov.gr service with their TAXISnet codes and register an IBAN and their family status; ΔΥΠΑ then checks eligibility and pays in batches, and we found no 2026 batch date as of 13 October 2026."
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "ΤΑ ΝΕΑ on 5 March 2026 and newmoney.gr on 11 March 2026 gave the income limits as €24,000 for married couples plus €3,000 per child and €27,000 for single-parent families.[S9][S11]",
      "finding": "Those are the 2023 limits.[S8] The gov.gr page, updated on 7 October 2026, gives €24,000 plus €5,000 per child for married couples and €29,000 plus €5,000 per child after the first for single parents.[S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "ΤΑ ΝΕΑ (5 March 2026) and newmoney.gr (11 March 2026) say no application is needed because ΔΥΠΑ identifies those eligible automatically; ΤΑ ΝΕΑ adds only that personal and bank details must be up to date.[S9][S11]",
      "finding": "Only partly right. ΔΥΠΑ runs the checks and pays automatically, but the person must first log in to the gov.gr service with TAXISnet codes and register an IBAN and family status.[S1][S8]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "ΤΑ ΝΕΑ (5 March 2026) and newmoney.gr (11 March 2026) say the €300 counts as income and is deducted from a later minimum-income (ΚΕΑ/ΕΕΕ) payment.[S9][S11]",
      "finding": "Neither cites a document, and we found none. In 2023 arcadianet.gr, citing Labour Ministry sources, reported the opposite.[S12]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "When ΔΥΠΑ will pay the next batch of the €300. We found no batch date for 2026, and the latest batch announcement we found from ΔΥΠΑ is dated 24 April 2024.",
    "Whether the €300 counts as income for the Minimum Guaranteed Income (ΕΕΕ) and is deducted from it. Greek press reports in 2026 say it is, a 2023 report attributes the opposite to Labour Ministry sources, and neither cites an official document.",
    "Whether the €300 is taxable or protected from seizure. We found nothing on this in the law or in ΔΥΠΑ's texts.",
    "Which tax year's income ΔΥΠΑ checks, and whether the €80,000 cap on family business revenue that ΔΥΠΑ cited in 2024 still applies; the current gov.gr page does not mention it.",
    "Whether a break in registration with ΔΥΠΑ restarts the five-year count, and how someone who believes they qualify but was not paid can object.",
    "How many people have received the €300 since April 2024. The latest total ΔΥΠΑ published that we found is 100,186 people by 24 April 2024."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "publisher": "gov.gr (service page, responsible body: ΔΥΠΑ)",
      "title": "Εφάπαξ χρηματική παροχή 300€ για μακροχρόνια (άνω των 5 ετών) ανέργους",
      "date": "2026-10-07",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.gov.gr/ipiresies/ergasia-kai-asphalise/anergia/ephapax-khrematike-parokhe-gia-anergous",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven (codified law text)",
      "title": "Άρθρο 17 — Ν. 4921/2022: Ψηφιακό Ατομικό Σχέδιο Δράσης",
      "date": "2022-04-18",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/4921/2022/arthro/17",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013181652/https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/4921/2022/arthro/17"
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven (codified law text)",
      "title": "Άρθρο 19 — Ν. 4921/2022: Εισοδηματικές προϋποθέσεις για παροχές προς ανέργους και αναζητούντες εργασία",
      "date": "2022-04-18",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/4921/2022/arthro/19",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013181654/https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/4921/2022/arthro/19"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "publisher": "ΔΥΠΑ",
      "title": "Σήμερα η καταβολή του «μπόνους» 300 ευρώ σε 41.755 μη επιδοτούμενους μακροχρόνια ανέργους που κατάρτισαν Ψηφιακό Ατομικό Σχέδιο Δράσης",
      "date": "2023-02-17",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.dypa.gov.gr/simera-i-katavoli-toy-mponoys-300-efrw-se-41755-mi-epidotoumenoys-makrokhronia-anerghoys-poy-katartisan-psifiako-atomiko-skhedio-drasis",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S5",
      "publisher": "ΔΥΠΑ",
      "title": "Σήμερα καταβάλλεται το «μπόνους» 300 ευρώ σε επιπλέον 10.290 μακροχρόνια ανέργους που κατάρτισαν Ψηφιακό Ατομικό Σχέδιο Δράσης",
      "date": "2024-02-07",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.dypa.gov.gr/en/simera-katavalletai-to-mponoys-300-efrw-se-epipleon-10290-makrokhronia-anerghoys-poy-katartisan-psifiako-atomiko-skhedio-drasis",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S6",
      "publisher": "ΔΥΠΑ",
      "title": "Σήμερα καταβάλλεται το «μπόνους» 300 ευρώ σε επιπλέον 3.196 μακροχρόνια ανέργους που κατάρτισαν Ψηφιακό Ατομικό Σχέδιο Δράσης",
      "date": "2024-04-24",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.dypa.gov.gr/en/simera-katavalletai-to-mponoys-300-efrw-se-epipleon-3196-makrokhronia-anerghoys-poy-katartisan-psifiako-atomiko-skhedio-drasis",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S7",
      "publisher": "ΔΥΠΑ",
      "title": "Σήμερα καταβάλλεται το «μπόνους» 300 ευρώ σε επιπλέον 1.182 μακροχρόνια ανέργους που κατάρτισαν Ψηφιακό Ατομικό Σχέδιο Δράσης",
      "date": "2023-05-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.dypa.gov.gr/en/simera-katavalletai-to-mponoys-300-efrw-se-epipleon-1182-makrokhronia-anerghoys-poy-katartisan-psifiako-atomiko-skhedio-drasis",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S8",
      "publisher": "ΤΑ ΝΕΑ (reprint of ΔΥΠΑ's instructions)",
      "title": "ΔΥΠΑ: Οδηγίες για την εφάπαξ ενίσχυση των 300 ευρώ σε μη επιδοτούμενους μακροχρόνια ανέργους",
      "date": "2023-01-19",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.tanea.gr/2023/01/19/greece/dypa-odigies-gia-tin-efapaks-enisxysi-ton-300-eyro-se-mi-epidotoumenous-makroxronia-anergous/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013181912/https://www.tanea.gr/2023/01/19/greece/dypa-odigies-gia-tin-efapaks-enisxysi-ton-300-eyro-se-mi-epidotoumenous-makroxronia-anergous/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S9",
      "publisher": "ΤΑ ΝΕΑ",
      "title": "ΔΥΠΑ: Έκτακτο επίδομα 300 ευρώ - Ποιοι άνεργοι θα το δουν απευθείας στον λογαριασμό τους",
      "date": "2026-03-05",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.tanea.gr/2026/03/05/economy/dypa-aytomato-epidoma-300-eyro-xoris-aitisi-ta-eisodimatika-kritiria-kai-oi-proypotheseis/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013181912/https://www.tanea.gr/2026/03/05/economy/dypa-aytomato-epidoma-300-eyro-xoris-aitisi-ta-eisodimatika-kritiria-kai-oi-proypotheseis/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S10",
      "publisher": "newmoney.gr",
      "title": "ΔΥΠΑ: Ποιοι άνεργοι δικαιούνται 300 ευρώ – Τα εισοδηματικά κριτήρια",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.newmoney.gr/roh/ergasiaka/dipa-pii-anergi-dikeounte-300-evro-ta-isodimatika-kritiria/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013182011/https://www.newmoney.gr/roh/ergasiaka/dipa-pii-anergi-dikeounte-300-evro-ta-isodimatika-kritiria/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S11",
      "publisher": "newmoney.gr",
      "title": "Αυτόματο επίδομα 300 ευρώ: Ποιοι άνεργοι είναι δικαιούχοι",
      "date": "2026-03-11",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.newmoney.gr/roh/ergasiaka/aftomato-epidoma-300-evro-pii-anergi-ine-dikeouchi/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013182101/https://www.newmoney.gr/roh/ergasiaka/aftomato-epidoma-300-evro-pii-anergi-ine-dikeouchi/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S12",
      "publisher": "arcadianet.gr",
      "title": "ΔΥΠΑ: Ποιοι παίρνουν το «μπόνους» των 300, αναλυτικά οι κατηγορίες",
      "date": "2023-02-01",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://arcadianet.gr/2023/02/01/%CE%B4%CF%85%CF%80%CE%B1-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%BC%CF%80%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-300/",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S13",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven (ministerial decision text)",
      "title": "121382/15.12.2022 Προσδιορισμός του προτύπου του Ψηφιακού Ατομικού Σχεδίου Δράσης και καθορισμός των προθεσμιών και της διαδικασίας κατάρτισης και αναθεώρησής του",
      "date": "2022-12-15",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/circulars/42007/121382-15-12-2022",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013182201/https://www.taxheaven.gr/circulars/42007/121382-15-12-2022"
    },
    {
      "id": "S14",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven (codified law text)",
      "title": "Άρθρο 20 — Ν. 4921/2022: Υποχρεώσεις Δημόσιας Υπηρεσίας Απασχόλησης προς αναζητούντες εργασία",
      "date": "2022-04-18",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/4921/2022/arthro/20",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013182231/https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/4921/2022/arthro/20"
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "eligibility",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "gov.gr service page, eligibility section",
      "greek": "Οι άνεργοι που έχετε συμπληρώσει (από 18.04.2022 και μετά) συνεχόμενη εγγεγραμμένη ανεργία άνω των πέντε ετών, έχετε καταρτίσει Ψηφιακό Ατομικό Σχέδιο Δράσης, και δεν λαμβάνετε κάποιο επίδομα ή χρηματική ενίσχυση, μπορείτε να λάβετε εφάπαξ χρηματική παροχή των 300€.",
      "translation": "Those of you who are unemployed and have completed (from 18.04.2022 onwards) more than five years of continuous registered unemployment, have drawn up a Digital Individual Action Plan, and do not receive any benefit or financial support, can receive a one-off cash payment of €300."
    },
    {
      "id": "once",
      "source": "S2",
      "where": "Law 4921/2022, article 17, paragraph 4",
      "greek": "Η παροχή αυτή χορηγείται μόνο μία φορά.",
      "translation": "This payment is granted only once."
    }
  ],
  "redlines": [],
  "corrections": [],
  "tags": [
    "DYPA",
    "unemployment",
    "benefits",
    "gov.gr",
    "long-term unemployed"
  ]
}