{ "schema": "https://agentnews.gr/how-we-work#machine-readable", "url": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-birth-allowance-2026-rise", "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-birth-allowance-2026-rise.md", "title": "Greece's birth allowance would rise only from the fourth child: €4,500 under a draft bill", "dek": "A draft bill posted on 18 October 2026 would lift the birth allowance for a fourth child from €3,500 to €4,500, with €1,000 more for each later child. The amounts for a first, second and third child do not change.", "description": "A draft bill would raise Greece's birth allowance for births from 1 January 2026, but only for fourth and later children. Amounts, rules and how to claim.", "language": "en", "section": "guides", "format": "guide", "published": "2026-10-19T07:52:00.000Z", "lastModified": "2026-10-19T07:52:00.000Z", "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": "Families with a fourth or later child born in 2026", "effect": "Under the draft bill, the allowance would be €4,500 for a fourth child, €5,500 for a fifth and €6,500 for a sixth (the last two by our calculation), instead of €3,500 each today. [S1]" }, { "group": "Families already paid for a fourth or later child born in 2026", "effect": "The draft says the difference would be paid by 31 December 2026 without a new application, if the full allowance or its first instalment has already been paid. [S1]" }, { "group": "Parents of a first, second or third child", "effect": "Nothing changes: the draft keeps the amounts at €2,400, €2,700 and €3,000. [S1]" } ], "action": "Nothing changes yet: the rise is in a draft bill in public consultation until 1 November 2026, and today's €3,500 rate still applies. [S1] Whatever happens to the bill, apply for the allowance within three months of the birth, at epidomagennisis.gr or through the digital birth declaration. [S11]" }, "status": { "checked": "2026-10-19", "legislation": { "name": "Draft bill on boosting disposable income, savings and investment, with tax, pay, pension and social-policy provisions (Ministry of National Economy and Finance)", "legalForce": "NotInForce" }, "steps": [ { "label": "Posted for public consultation on opengov.gr [S1]", "date": "2026-10-18", "done": true }, { "label": "Public consultation closes at 22:00 [S1]", "date": "2026-11-01", "done": false }, { "label": "Tabled in the Hellenic Parliament (Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Vouli ton Ellinon) [S1]", "when": "Not scheduled", "done": false }, { "label": "Voted in Parliament and published in the Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ) [S1] [S2]", "when": "Ministry's target: November 2026", "done": false }, { "label": "Difference paid, without a new application, to families already paid for a 2026 birth (if passed as drafted) [S1]", "date": "2026-12-31", "done": false } ] }, "deadlines": [ { "date": "2026-11-01", "label": "Public consultation closes on the draft tax and benefits bill, including the birth-allowance rise (22:00 Athens time)" } ], "glance": [ "Under a draft bill, the birth allowance for a fourth child would rise from €3,500 to €4,500, and each later child would get €1,000 more than the one before. [S1]", "The first, second and third child stay at €2,400, €2,700 and €3,000. [S1]", "The draft covers births from 1 January 2026, but it is in public consultation until 1 November 2026 and is not law. [S1]" ], "checks": [ { "verdict": "corrected", "claim": "Mononews's headline says the birth allowance goes up by «έως 1.000 ευρώ» (up to €1,000, in our translation). [S5]", "finding": "That is right for a fourth child only. Against today's €3,500, the draft gives a fifth child €2,000 more and a sixth €3,000 more, by our calculation from article 22. [S1] Mononews's own article gives €5,500 and €6,500 for those children, so its body is correct and its headline understates the rise. It also calls the measure «νέα νομοθετική ρύθμιση» (a new legislative provision, in our translation) and does not say it is a draft. [S5]" }, { "verdict": "confirmed", "claim": "Dnews reports that the new provision raises the amount «για το τέταρτο και κάθε επόμενο εξαρτώμενο τέκνο» (for the fourth and every later dependent child, in our translation). [S4]", "finding": "This matches article 22 of the draft. [S1] But Dnews describes it as «η νέα ρύθμιση» (the new provision, in our translation) and does not say it is a draft bill in public consultation until 1 November 2026, which is not yet law. [S4] [S1]" }, { "verdict": "confirmed", "claim": "Mononews reports that the first child stays at €2,400, with €2,700 and €3,000 for the second and third. [S5]", "finding": "The draft's figures are the same as those on ΟΠΕΚΑ's current page, which still shows €3,500 for four or more children. [S1] [S3]" } ], "unknowns": [ "Whether the bill will change before it is tabled. The consultation runs until 1 November 2026, 22:00; the ministry aims for the bill «να νομοθετηθεί εντός του ίδιου μήνα» (to be legislated within the same month, in our translation), November 2026, but has set no date for a vote.", "Whether the difference can be paid by 31 December 2026, which depends on the bill being passed and published in time.", "Which families fall under the bill's 'all other cases', for example parents who have applied but not yet been paid, and how the procedure it cites in article 2(2)(δ) of Law 4659/2020 works. In the 2024 text that point is the instalment line for the fourth child, not a procedure.", "Whether a family whose fifth or later child was born in 2026 receives the full cumulative difference automatically. ΟΠΕΚΑ has not published guidance.", "When ΟΠΕΚΑ will update its page and FAQ, which still show €3,500 for four or more children.", "How the €40,000 equivalised-income limit is weighted for each family member. The scale's weights are not in the sources we could read." ], "sources": [ { "id": "S1", "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών (opengov.gr)", "title": "Ενίσχυση του διαθέσιμου εισοδήματος, της αποταμίευσης και των επενδύσεων, φορολογικές, μισθολογικές, συνταξιοδοτικές διατάξεις και λοιπές διατάξεις κοινωνικής πολιτικής (public consultation #1646)", "date": "2026-10-18", "language": "el", "official": true, "url": "https://opengov.gr/minfin/deliberations/enischysi-toy-diathesimoy-eisodimatos-tis-apotamieysis-kai-ton-ependyseon-forologikes-misthologikes/", "archive": null }, { "id": "S2", "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών (minfin.gov.gr)", "title": "Αναρτήθηκε σε δημόσια διαβούλευση το νομοσχέδιο με τα μέτρα που ανακοινώθηκαν στην 90η Διεθνή Έκθεση Θεσσαλονίκης και εφαρμόζονται κατά τα έτη 2026 και 2027", "date": "2026-10-18", "language": "el", "official": true, "url": "https://minfin.gov.gr/anartithike-se-dimosia-diavoulefsi-to-nomoschedio-me-ta-metra-pou-anakoinothikan-stin-90i-diethni-ekthesi-thessalonikis-kai-efarmozontai-kata-ta-eti-2026-kai-2027/", "archive": null }, { "id": "S3", "publisher": "ΟΠΕΚΑ (opeka.gov.gr)", "title": "Επίδομα Γέννησης", "date": null, "language": "el", "official": true, "url": "https://opeka.gov.gr/oikogeneia/epidoma-gennisis/", "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261019075205/https://opeka.gov.gr/oikogeneia/epidoma-gennisis/" }, { "id": "S4", "publisher": "Dnews", "title": "Αυξάνεται το επίδομα γέννησης για παιδιά που γεννήθηκαν από την 1η Ιανουαρίου 2026 - Ποιοι δικαιούνται αναδρομικά", "date": "2026-10-19", "language": "el", "official": false, "url": "https://www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/oikonomia/617188/afksanetai-to-epidoma-gennisis-gia-paidia-pou-gennithikan-apo-tin-1i-ianouariou-2026-poioi-dikaioyntai-anadromika", "archive": null }, { "id": "S5", "publisher": "Mononews", "title": "Επίδομα γέννησης: Αυξήσεις έως 1.000 ευρώ και αναδρομικά για παιδιά που γεννήθηκαν από το 2026", "date": "2026-10-19", "language": "el", "official": false, "url": "https://www.mononews.gr/oikonomia/epidoma-gennisis-afxiseis-eos-1-000-evro-kai-anadromika-gia-paidia-pou-gennithikan-apo-to-2026", "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261019075314/https://www.mononews.gr/oikonomia/epidoma-gennisis-afxiseis-eos-1-000-evro-kai-anadromika-gia-paidia-pou-gennithikan-apo-to-2026" }, { "id": "S6", "publisher": "Taxheaven", "title": "Το νέο φορολογικό νομοσχέδιο - Τι αλλάζει αναλυτικά, και από πότε θα ισχύσει η κάθε διάταξη", "date": "2026-10-19", "language": "el", "official": false, "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/news/74905/to-neo-forologiko-nomosxedio-ti-allazei-analytika-kai-apo-pote-oa-isxysei-h-kaoe-diataxh", "archive": null }, { "id": "S8", "publisher": "Taxheaven", "title": "Επίδομα γέννησης - Οι διατάξεις για την αύξησή του από 1.1.2023 (ν. 5092/2024, άρθρα 29–32)", "date": "2024-02-17", "language": "el", "official": false, "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/news/66476/epidoma-gennhshs-oi-diataxeis-gia-thn-ayxhsh-toy-apo-112023", "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261019075417/https://www.taxheaven.gr/news/66476/epidoma-gennhshs-oi-diataxeis-gia-thn-ayxhsh-toy-apo-112023" }, { "id": "S9", "publisher": "Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως (ΦΕΚ Α' 21/03.02.2020)", "title": "Ν. 4659/2020: Επίδομα γέννησης και λοιπές διατάξεις", "date": "2020-02-03", "language": "el", "official": true, "url": "https://api.et.gr/apiLAW/1/2020/4659/pdf", "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261019075416/https://api.et.gr/apiLAW/1/2020/4659/pdf" }, { "id": "S10", "publisher": "ΟΠΕΚΑ (opeka.gov.gr)", "title": "Επίδομα Γέννησης: Συχνές Ερωτήσεις", "date": null, "language": "el", "official": true, "url": "https://opeka.gov.gr/oikogeneia/epidoma-gennisis/sychnes-erotiseis/", "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261019075517/https://opeka.gov.gr/oikogeneia/epidoma-gennisis/sychnes-erotiseis/" }, { "id": "S11", "publisher": "Εθνικό Μητρώο Διοικητικών Διαδικασιών (mitos.gov.gr)", "title": "Επίδομα Γέννησης", "date": null, "language": "el", "official": true, "url": "https://mitos.gov.gr/index.php/%CE%94%CE%94:%CE%95%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B1_%CE%93%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82", "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261019075643/https://mitos.gov.gr/index.php/%CE%94%CE%94:%CE%95%CF%80%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B1_%CE%93%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82" } ], "greekPassages": [ { "id": "amounts", "source": "S1", "where": "Article 22, new article 2(2) of Law 4659/2020", "greek": "α) δύο χιλιάδες τετρακόσια (2.400,00) ευρώ για το πρώτο … β) δύο χιλιάδες επτακόσια (2.700,00) ευρώ για το δεύτερο … γ) τρεις χιλιάδες (3.000,00) ευρώ για το τρίτο … δ) τέσσερις χιλιάδες πεντακόσια (4.500,00) ευρώ για το τέταρτο τέκνο, προσαυξανόμενο σωρευτικά κατά το ποσό των χιλίων (1.000,00) ευρώ για κάθε επόμενο", "translation": "a) two thousand four hundred (2,400.00) euros for the first … b) two thousand seven hundred (2,700.00) euros for the second … c) three thousand (3,000.00) euros for the third … d) four thousand five hundred (4,500.00) euros for the fourth child, increased cumulatively by the amount of one thousand (1,000.00) euros for each subsequent one" }, { "id": "art22-3", "source": "S1", "where": "Article 22, paragraph 3", "greek": "ισχύουν για γεννήσεις που πραγματοποιήθηκαν από την 1η Ιανουαρίου 2026 και εφεξής. Η διαφορά που προκύπτει … καταβάλλεται έως την 31η.12.2026 χωρίς υποβολή νέας αίτησης, στις εξής περιπτώσεις: α) σε δικαιούχους που έχουν ήδη λάβει το πλήρες ποσό επιδόματος γέννησης, εφάπαξ και β) σε δικαιούχους στους οποίους έχει καταβληθεί η πρώτη εκ των δύο (2) δόσεων, κατ' αναλογία. Σε όλες τις άλλες περιπτώσεις η διαφορά καταβάλλεται σύμφωνα με τη διαδικασία της περ. δ) της παρ. 2 του άρθρου 2 του ν. 4659/2020.", "translation": "[they] apply to births that took place from 1 January 2026 onwards. The resulting difference … is paid by 31.12.2026 without the submission of a new application, in the following cases: a) to beneficiaries who have already received the full amount of the birth allowance, in a single payment, and b) to beneficiaries to whom the first of the two (2) instalments has been paid, proportionately. In all other cases the difference is paid in accordance with the procedure of point (d) of paragraph 2 of article 2 of Law 4659/2020." } ], "redlines": [ { "id": "amounts-change", "title": "Birth allowance amounts by child", "before": "Law 4659/2020, article 2(2), as replaced by Law 5092/2024", "after": "Draft bill, article 22 (public consultation of 18 October 2026)", "method": "by our comparison; our translation of the Greek texts", "sections": [ { "label": "First, second and third child (points α to γ)", "text": "€2,400, €2,700 and €3,000, paid in two equal instalments: no change [S8] [S1]" }, { "label": "Fourth and later children (point δ)", "text": "[-two equal instalments of €1,750 each for the fourth and each subsequent dependent child, by order of birth-] [S8] {+€4,500 for the fourth child, increased cumulatively by €1,000 for each subsequent one+} [S1]" } ], "notes": [ { "who": "Ministry of National Economy and Finance", "text": "Its summary describes a rise «για τις πολύτεκνες οικογένειες κατά 1.000 ευρώ επιπλέον για κάθε τέκνο» (for large families, by €1,000 more for each child, in our translation; πολύτεκνες usually means families with four or more children). [S2]" }, { "who": "Taxheaven", "text": "Summarises the change as €3,500 to €4,500 for the fourth child, increased cumulatively by €1,000 for each later child. [S6]" } ] } ], "corrections": [], "tags": [ "birth allowance", "ΟΠΕΚΑ", "families", "benefits", "2027 tax bill" ] }