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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-opeka-payment-dates",
  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-opeka-payment-dates.md",
  "title": "OPEKA payment dates: child benefit, housing allowance, disability and minimum income",
  "dek": "ΟΠΕΚΑ, the Greek state's welfare-benefits agency, announces each payment only a few days ahead. This guide sets out the pattern, the 2026 dates so far and what has not yet been announced.",
  "description": "OPEKA usually pays welfare benefits on the last working day of the month and child benefit every two months. The 2026 dates and the 13 November deadline.",
  "language": "en",
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  "published": "2026-10-13T07:43:00.000Z",
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      {
        "group": "Families receiving child benefit (Α21)",
        "effect": "ΟΠΕΚΑ says applications still under review will, if approved, be included in 'the November 2026 payment' (our translation), but it has not given the date.[S1] Greek outlets expect the fifth instalment on 30 November 2026.[S27]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Families who have not applied for 2026 child benefit",
        "effect": "The Α21 platform is open again from Monday 5 October 2026 and takes new applications or changes until Friday 13 November 2026 at 18:00.[S1][S2]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Housing-allowance recipients",
        "effect": "The allowance is paid monthly on the last working day of the month and is not paid if no bank account number was declared in the application.[S19]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Non-EU residents claiming Α21 or the housing allowance",
        "effect": "Most third-country nationals need 12 years' legal and permanent residence in Greece for both benefits, counted up to the year of the Α21 application and up to the housing-allowance application. For Α21, Greek, EU and EEA citizens, ethnic Greeks, and people granted refugee status, subsidiary protection or humanitarian status (including stateless people) need 5 years.[S13][S19]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing changes in how ΟΠΕΚΑ pays. If you want 2026 child benefit and have not applied, apply on the Α21 platform by Friday 13 November 2026 at 18:00.[S1]"
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  "status": null,
  "deadlines": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-13",
      "label": "Child benefit (Α21) 2026: last day for new applications or changes, until 18:00 (ΟΠΕΚΑ)"
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  "glance": [
    "From January to September 2026, ΟΠΕΚΑ paid its monthly benefits on the last working day of each month, except in July, when it paid on Thursday 30 July rather than Friday 31 July (by our check against the calendar).",
    "Child benefit (Α21) is paid every two months: the 2026 instalments so far came on 31 March, 29 May, 30 July and 30 September, plus a supplementary payment on 9 October.",
    "New 2026 child-benefit (Α21) applications close on Friday 13 November 2026 at 18:00. ΟΠΕΚΑ has not yet announced the October monthly payment date or the date of the November child-benefit payment."
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  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "Parapolitika's January 2026 schedule put the third child-benefit (Α21) instalment on Friday 31 July 2026.[S26]",
      "finding": "ΟΠΕΚΑ paid it, with all the July benefits, a day earlier, on Thursday 30 July 2026.[S5]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "The fifth Α21 instalment will be paid on Monday 30 November 2026 (Τα Νέα, Powergame).[S27][S28]",
      "finding": "ΟΠΕΚΑ's own announcement refers only to 'the November 2026 payment', with no date.[S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "October 2026 benefits will be paid on Friday 30 October 2026 (Οδηγός του Πολίτη, a private site).[S31]",
      "finding": "ΟΠΕΚΑ had published no October payment release by 13 October 2026; its latest monthly release covers September.[S33][S3]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The fourth 2026 child-benefit instalment totalled €78,256,511.17.[S1]",
      "finding": "ΟΠΕΚΑ's main payment of €70,584,787.15 on 30 September 2026 and its supplementary €7,671,724.02 on 9 October 2026 add up exactly to that total, by our calculation.[S3][S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "New 2026 Α21 applications can be made until 13 November 2026.",
      "finding": "ΟΠΕΚΑ reopened the platform on Monday 5 October 2026 at 08:00 and keeps it open for new applications or changes until Friday 13 November 2026 at 18:00.[S2][S1]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "The date of ΟΠΕΚΑ's October 2026 monthly payment. ΟΠΕΚΑ had not announced it on 13 October 2026, and it usually announces each payment one or two working days ahead.",
    "The date of ΟΠΕΚΑ's November 2026 child-benefit (Α21) payment. ΟΠΕΚΑ has given no date; Greek outlets expect the fifth instalment on 30 November 2026.",
    "Whether a sixth Α21 instalment will be paid before Christmas 2026. Greek outlets report a window of 18 or 19 to 24 December; ΟΠΕΚΑ's child-benefit page says only that the sixth two-month instalment may be paid up to 31 December.",
    "Whether ΟΠΕΚΑ will open another 2026 Α21 application round after the current one closes on 13 November 2026. Its FAQ still gives 15 January of the following year as the end of the application period.",
    "Whether people who apply for Α21 between 5 October and 13 November 2026 will receive the earlier 2026 instalments back-dated. No ΟΠΕΚΑ text we read says so.",
    "What the smaller child-benefit payment in ΟΠΕΚΑ's January 2026 release (€9,229,503 to 16,699 beneficiaries) covered. The release does not say.",
    "Why ΟΠΕΚΑ paid July 2026 benefits on Thursday 30 July rather than on Friday 31 July. Its release gives no reason.",
    "Whether ΟΠΕΚΑ publishes an annual calendar of payment dates. We found none; dates are announced month by month."
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      "title": "Καταβολή της συμπληρωματικής πληρωμής επιδόματος παιδιού (Α21) – Υποβολή νέων αιτήσεων",
      "date": "2026-10-08",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://opeka.gov.gr/katavoli-tis-sympliromatikis-pliromis-epidomatos-paidioy-a21-ypovoli-neon-aitiseon/",
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      "official": true,
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      "official": true,
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      "official": true,
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      "language": "el",
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      "title": "Επίδομα παιδιού Α21: Ανοίγει ξανά η πλατφόρμα – Πότε πληρώνεται η 4η δόση",
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      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.tanea.gr/2026/09/30/economy/epidoma-paidiou-a21-anoigei-ksana-i-platforma-pote-plironetai-i-4i-dosi/",
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      "official": false,
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      "official": false,
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      "id": "S31",
      "publisher": "Οδηγός του Πολίτη (odigostoupoliti.eu, private site)",
      "title": "ΟΠΕΚΑ: Πότε πληρώνονται Ελάχιστο Εγγυημένο Εισόδημα (ΚΕΑ), Επίδομα Στέγασης (Ενοικίου), Προνοιακά Οκτωβρίου 2026",
      "date": null,
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.odigostoupoliti.eu/opeka-pote-plironontai-elachisto-engyimeno-eisodima-kea-epidoma-stegasis-enoikiou-pronoiaka-oktovriou-2026/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013075605/https://www.odigostoupoliti.eu/opeka-pote-plironontai-elachisto-engyimeno-eisodima-kea-epidoma-stegasis-enoikiou-pronoiaka-oktovriou-2026/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S32",
      "publisher": "Έθνος",
      "title": "Προπληρωμένη Κάρτα Κοινωνικών Παροχών: Τι αλλάζει στην καταβολή επιδομάτων",
      "date": "2026-06-30",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.ethnos.gr/Economy/article/413026/proplhromenhkartakoinonikonparoxontiallazeisthnkatabolhepidomaton",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013075604/https://www.ethnos.gr/Economy/article/413026/proplhromenhkartakoinonikonparoxontiallazeisthnkatabolhepidomaton"
    },
    {
      "id": "S33",
      "publisher": "ΟΠΕΚΑ",
      "title": "Δελτία Τύπου",
      "date": null,
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://opeka.gov.gr/category/deltia-typou/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261013075508/https://opeka.gov.gr/category/deltia-typou/"
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "a21-rule",
      "source": "S12",
      "where": "Child benefit (Α21) page, payment, point 2",
      "greek": "Το επίδομα καταβάλλεται στους δικαιούχους κάθε έτους, ανά δίμηνο, με πίστωση σε ενεργό τραπεζικό λογαριασμό του δικαιούχου την τελευταία εργάσιμη ημέρα του μήνα καταβολής. Ειδικότερα το επίδομα στ’ διμήνου εκάστου έτους δύναται να καταβάλλεται στους δικαιούχους μέχρι την 31η Δεκεμβρίου του έτους αυτού.",
      "translation": "The allowance is paid to beneficiaries each year, per two-month period, by credit to the beneficiary's active bank account on the last working day of the month of payment. In particular, the allowance for the sixth two-month period of each year may be paid to beneficiaries up to 31 December of that year."
    },
    {
      "id": "housing-rule",
      "source": "S19",
      "where": "Housing allowance page, payment",
      "greek": "Το επίδομα καταβάλλεται μηνιαίως, την τελευταία εργάσιμη ημέρα του μήνα, με πίστωση σε τραπεζικό λογαριασμό",
      "translation": "The allowance is paid monthly, on the last working day of the month, by credit to a bank account"
    },
    {
      "id": "a21-fourth",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Announcement of 8 October 2026",
      "greek": "Συγκεκριμένα, με τη συμπληρωματική πληρωμή θα λάβουν το Επίδομα παιδιού 49.545 δικαιούχοι που είχαν υποβάλει εμπρόθεσμη αίτηση και το ποσό ανέρχεται σε 7.671.724,02 ευρώ. Το συνολικό ποσό του επιδόματος τέταρτης (4ης) δόσης ανέρχεται σε 78.256.511,17 ευρώ.",
      "translation": "Specifically, with the supplementary payment, 49,545 beneficiaries who had submitted an application on time will receive the child benefit, and the amount comes to €7,671,724.02. The total amount of the benefit's fourth (4th) instalment comes to €78,256,511.17."
    }
  ],
  "redlines": [],
  "corrections": [],
  "tags": [
    "OPEKA",
    "child benefit",
    "housing allowance",
    "welfare benefits",
    "payment dates",
    "deadlines"
  ]
}