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  "title": "Greece plans to subsidise heating oil from 15 to 31 October 2026, with no application; the amount and this winter's heating allowance are still undecided",
  "dek": "Greece plans to subsidise heating oil released onto the market from 15 to 31 October 2026 without any application, but the amount per litre is not yet set and the 2026–27 heating allowance has not been decided, so last winter's rules, which excluded tax residents abroad, are the best guide for now.",
  "description": "Greece plans to subsidise heating oil released 15–31 October 2026, with no application. Price due 14 October; the heating allowance is still undecided.",
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  "published": "2026-10-09T08:55:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Households that heat with oil",
        "effect": "Heating oil released onto the market from 15 to 31 October 2026 would be subsidised through refineries and fuel traders, which, according to reports, are to keep no financial advantage from it. You do not apply, and the amount per litre has not yet been set. [S1][S2][S4]"
      },
      {
        "group": "People who claim the heating allowance (επίδομα θέρμανσης)",
        "effect": "No decision for winter 2026–27 has been published yet. The finance minister said on 21 September 2026 that the criteria will stay the same and the amount will rise, but he did not say by how much. [S20][S21]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Tax residents abroad with a home in Greece",
        "effect": "Last winter's heating-allowance decision excluded tax residents abroad who must file a Greek tax return, and their spouses. The October subsidy would be paid to refineries and fuel traders, not to households, so there would be no claim to make for it. [S10][S1]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "There is nothing to apply for yet. The deputy finance minister said the subsidised price would be announced on 14 October 2026. Meanwhile, keep every heating-oil receipt with your tax number (ΑΦΜ) on it: last winter the allowance counted heating-oil purchases from 15 October 2025. [S12][S10][S18]"
  },
  "status": {
    "checked": "2026-10-12",
    "legislation": {
      "name": "Heating-oil subsidy amendment to law 5292/2026 (October 2026)",
      "legalForce": "NotInForce"
    },
    "steps": [
      {
        "label": "Amendment tabled in Parliament by three ministers [S2][S5]",
        "date": "2026-10-07",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Passed by the plenary of Parliament, as part of the ports bill (article 19) [S23]",
        "date": "2026-10-08",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Publication in the Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ) [S23]",
        "when": "Not yet published as of 12 October 2026",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Per-litre amount set by joint ministerial decision; price, including the subsidy, to be announced on 14 October 2026 [S1][S12]",
        "when": "Decision not yet issued as of 12 October 2026",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Subsidy applies to heating oil released from 15 to 31 October 2026 [S1][S3][S23]",
        "date": "2026-10-15",
        "done": false
      }
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  "deadlines": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-15",
      "label": "Heating-oil subsidy starts (oil released onto the market from today); the amount is set by joint ministerial decision"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-31",
      "label": "Heating-oil subsidy: last day of the period, unless extended"
    }
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  "glance": [
    "Parliament passed an amendment on 8 October 2026 to subsidise heating oil released onto the Greek market from 15 to 31 October 2026; it awaits publication in the Government Gazette. The money would go to refineries and fuel traders, who are meant to pass all of it on to consumers, so households would not apply. [S1][S2][S4][S23]",
    "The amount per litre is not in the amendment. A joint ministerial decision will set it, and Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Markopoulos said the price would be announced on 14 October 2026. [S1][S12]",
    "We found no decision for the 2026–27 heating allowance as of 9 October 2026. Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said the criteria will not change and only the amount will rise. [S20][S21]"
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "Ahead of the vote, ERT reported that 'according to the scenarios' the subsidy could be 20 to 30 cents a litre [S8], and enikonomia, in its section on the amendment, wrote that it 'may range from €0.20 to €0.30' [S7]",
      "finding": "The amendment text sets no amount per litre. It leaves the amount and the payment procedure to a joint decision of the three ministers [S1], which had not been issued by 9 October 2026."
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The subsidy covers heating oil from 15 October 2026 [S2][S3]",
      "finding": "The amendment covers heating oil released onto the domestic market from 15 to 31 October 2026, calculated once on the value of the sales invoices before VAT and paid to refineries and importing traders, not to households [S1]."
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The period can be extended by ministerial decision [S2][S3]",
      "finding": "Article 5(5) of the March 2026 act lets the Minister of National Economy and Finance change the period and the amounts by decision [S9], and the amendment extends that power to the heating-oil subsidy [S1]. It was used for the diesel subsidy on 31 August 2026 [S22]."
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The finance minister said the heating-allowance criteria would not change [S20][S21]",
      "finding": "Under last winter's decision those criteria exclude tax residents abroad, and set income limits of €16,000 (single) or €24,000 (couple) plus €5,000 per child and property limits of €200,000 or €260,000 plus €40,000 per child [S10]."
    }
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  "unknowns": [
    "When the law passed on 8 October 2026 will appear in the Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ).",
    "The subsidy per litre and the price households will pay. The deputy finance minister said the price, including the subsidy, would be announced on 14 October 2026; the joint ministerial decision setting the amount has not been issued.",
    "Exactly how the subsidy will show up in dealers' prices, which the joint ministerial decision should set out, and whether dealers' prices will be monitored.",
    "Whether the subsidy will run beyond 31 October 2026, and what it will cost in total.",
    "The 2026–27 heating-allowance decision: the size of the increase, the ceilings (last winter €800, rising to €1,000 or €1,200 in colder areas), the purchase window, and when myΘέρμανση opens and closes."
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      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/circulars/51435/a-1151-2025",
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      "official": false,
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      "publisher": "in.gr",
      "title": "Βουλή: Αντιδράσεις της αντιπολίτευσης για τη τροπολογία του πετρελαίου θέρμανσης – «Βάλτε πλαφόν στο κέρδος των διυλιστηρίων»",
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      "url": "https://www.in.gr/2026/10/08/politics/politiki-grammateia/vouli-antidraseis-tis-antipoliteysis-gia-ti-tropologia-tou-petrelaiou-thermansis-valte-plafon-sto-kerdos-ton-diylistirion/",
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      "publisher": "Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών (Efsyn)",
      "title": "Βουλή: Πλαφόν στο πετρέλαιο ζητά η αντιπολίτευση – Σφοδρή κριτική στην κυβέρνηση για την τροπολογία",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
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      "id": "S14",
      "publisher": "Insider.gr",
      "title": "Μητσοτάκης: Παρέμβαση στο πετρέλαιο θέρμανσης, ώστε η τιμή εκκίνησης να διαμορφωθεί κάτω από τα 1,75 ευρώ το λίτρο",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.insider.gr/eidiseis/425450/mitsotakis-parembasi-sto-petrelaio-thermansis-oste-i-timi-ekkinisis-na-diamorfothei",
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      "publisher": "Το Βήμα (To Vima)",
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      "date": "2026-09-20",
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      "publisher": "ΑΑΔΕ, frequently asked questions on the 2025–26 heating allowance (reproduced by taxheaven.gr)",
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      "publisher": "Taxheaven",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/news/72482/epidoma-oermanshs-oloklhrwohke-h-katabolh-ths-prwths-doshs-gia-to-2025-2026",
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      "publisher": "Οικονομικός Ταχυδρόμος (OT)",
      "title": "Πιερρακάκης για επίδομα θέρμανσης: Αυξάνεται το ποσό, ίδιοι οι δικαιούχοι",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.ot.gr/2026/09/21/oikonomia/pierrakakis-gia-epidoma-thermansis-ayksanetai-to-poso-idioi-oi-dikaiouxoi/",
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      "publisher": "Hellenic Parliament (Βουλή των Ελλήνων), voted text",
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      "date": "2026-10-08",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/bcc26661-143b-4f2d-8916-0e0e66ba4c50/13438178.pdf",
      "archive": null
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [],
  "redlines": [],
  "corrections": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-12",
      "kind": "update",
      "text": "Parliament's own records now confirm that the ports bill, including the heating-oil subsidy as article 19, was passed on 8 October 2026; the law awaits publication in the Government Gazette, and the amount per litre still awaits a joint ministerial decision. We updated the status, key dates and open questions."
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "heating oil",
    "heating allowance",
    "energy prices",
    "ΑΑΔΕ",
    "myAADE",
    "subsidies"
  ]
}