Greece's rent refund: one month of 2025 rent back, with payment announced for 30 November

Tenants in Greece who qualify will get one month's rent back this autumn, paid automatically by ΑΑΔΕ (Ανεξάρτητη Αρχή Δημοσίων Εσόδων, Anexartiti Archi Dimosion Esodon, the independent tax authority).¹ The refund equals one-twelfth of the rent paid in 2025, up to €800 a year plus €50 per dependent child.¹ The government spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis, said on 28 September 2026 that the refund will be paid on 30 November 2026 to more than one million tenants.¹¹¹² That date is an announcement: the law itself says only that the refund is paid once, by the end of November each year.¹

The rules sit in article 70 of Law 5217/2025 and in a joint ministerial decision, Α.1132/2025, which sets out the procedure.¹³ Law 5313/2026 raised the income limits and added a separate "two rents" scheme for some public-sector staff.²

When will the rent refund be paid?

The government has announced 30 November 2026, a Monday by our calendar check, as the payment date.¹¹¹² The legal deadline is the end of November 2026.¹ The money goes into the IBAN registered with ΑΑΔΕ.¹ You can check your IBAN on myAADE, ΑΑΔΕ's online portal. In ΑΑΔΕ's 2025 instructions it was under «Μητρώο & Επικοινωνία > Δήλωση Λογαριασμού IBAN» (Registry & Contact > IBAN Account Declaration, in our translation).⁵

Last year, for 2024 rent, ΑΑΔΕ paid €199,558,299 to 886,883 tenants on 28 November 2025.⁵⁷

The rent refund is paid once a year, by the end of November, into the IBAN registered with ΑΑΔΕ.¹

Do I need to apply?

No. There is no application.¹ ΑΑΔΕ calculates the refund from your 2025 tax return as it stood on the last working day of September 2026, which was Wednesday 30 September 2026.¹³ Late amended returns were accepted up to that day, so the correction deadline has now passed.³⁹

Two things had to be in place:¹³

• Your landlord's lease declaration. The landlord must have filed the lease declaration (δήλωση πληροφοριακών στοιχείων μίσθωσης, the lease information return) with ΑΑΔΕ by 15 July 2026, on time or late.¹³
• The lease number in your return. The number of that declaration must appear in table 6 of your E1, the personal income tax return.¹³

Greek press reports advise tenants to check codes 811–816 (main home) and 817–822 (student housing) on the E1, and to enter the total rent paid in 2025, not the monthly rent.¹⁰¹⁴ ΑΑΔΕ may cross-check your E1 against the lease declarations and against the rent your landlord declared in their own return.³¹³ Where a lease number is missing, ΑΑΔΕ can identify the lease through the electricity supply number you declared.³

Who qualifies for the 2026 refund?

From the 2026 payment, for rent paid in 2025, the annual family income limits are:¹²⁶

• €25,000 for a single person;¹
• €35,000 for a married couple or civil partners, plus €5,000 per dependent child;¹²
• €39,000 for a single-parent family, plus €5,000 for each dependent child after the first.¹²

The previous limits were €20,000 for a single person and €28,000 for a married couple.² Income means total family income, taxed and tax-exempt, actual and deemed (τεκμαρτό, the minimum income the tax system assumes from your spending).³

For a main home there is also an asset limit.¹ Your total property value must not exceed €120,000 for a single person, plus €20,000 for a spouse or civil partner and for «κάθε επιπλέον εξαρτώμενο τέκνο» (each additional dependent child, in our translation).¹³ Unlike the income rule for single parents, the asset rule does not say "after the first".¹ In our reading, therefore, every dependent child adds €20,000 to the asset limit; this is our reading, not an official ruling. The asset limit is measured on your 2026 ΕΝΦΙΑ assessment, the annual property tax.³

How much will I get?

The refund is one-twelfth of the rent you paid in 2025, capped at €800 plus €50 per dependent child.¹ By our calculation, rent of €500 a month (€6,000 a year) gives a refund of €500, and the €800 cap starts to bite only above €800 a month for a tenant without children.

If you share the rent, each tenant gets a share in proportion to their part of the rent as declared in their tax return.³ The refund is tax-free and cannot be assigned.¹ It cannot be seized by the state or by third parties, and it cannot be frozen or offset against debts.¹

What about students?

The student-housing refund is separate: up to €800 a year for each student.¹ Only the income limit applies; there is no asset test.¹ A student aged up to 25 who is required to file their own tax return, rents the home in their own name and declares it as their main residence is treated under the main-home rules instead.³

My details were wrong. Can I still do anything?

Some special cases can still file a request with supporting documents on myAADE.³ These include student-housing cases where the conditions are unclear or not met, several student lets, rent paid that was higher than the amount declared, and landlords not required to file a lease declaration, such as public bodies.³¹⁵ Supporting documents include the lease, bank proof of payment and a student enrolment certificate.³

Requests filed by 20 October 2026 are meant to allow payment by the end of November 2026.³ The latest date for a request is 31 December 2026.³ In 2025, requests filed after 20 October were to be paid «σε επόμενο χρόνο», at a later date, in our translation.¹⁵ In 2025 the route was «Τα Αιτήματά μου > Νέο Αίτημα > Κατηγορία υπηρεσιών: Φορολογία > Θεματική Ομάδα: Εισόδημα > Διαδικασία: Χορήγηση επιδότησης με τη μορφή επιστροφής ποσού ενοικίου του άρθρου 70 του ν. 5217/2025» (My Requests > New Request > Service category: Taxation > Topic: Income > Procedure: Grant of subsidy in the form of a rent refund under article 70 of Law 5217/2025, in our translation); the ΑΑΔΕ helpline is 1521.⁵ We could not confirm whether the menu has changed for 2026.

Who gets "two rents" back?

Article 70Α, added by Law 5313/2026, covers teachers in public schools, both permanent and substitute, including special-education staff (Ε.Ε.Π. and Ε.Β.Π.).²⁴ It also covers health staff serving in public bodies: doctors and dentists of the ΕΣΥ (Εθνικό Σύστημα Υγείας, Ethniko Systima Ygeias, the national health service); nursing staff, both permanent and temporary («επικουρικό»); auxiliary health staff in nursing services; paramedical staff; and the ambulance drivers and crews of ΕΚΑΒ (Εθνικό Κέντρο Άμεσης Βοήθειας, Ethniko Kentro Amesis Voitheias, the national ambulance service).² To qualify, they must rent a main home in the area where they serve.²⁴ That area must be outside the Attica Region and outside the Thessaloniki regional (metropolitan) unit, which is wider than the city of Thessaloniki.² Staff serving in Attica's Islands regional unit are not excluded.²

The scheme pays two-twelfths of the rent paid in the previous year, with no income or asset test.²⁴ Anyone who also gets the general refund receives only one extra twelfth from article 70Α, so the total is two-twelfths.²⁴ Together with the general refund, the cap is €1,600 a year plus €100 per dependent child.²⁴

The first, retroactive payment, for 2024 rent, was made on 25 September 2026: €4,885,310.75 to 17,074 teachers, doctors and nurses.⁸¹⁶ People who had already received the general refund for 2024 got only the extra twelfth.⁴ Under article 70Α the double refund is paid by the end of November each year, and the government spokesman said the 2025-rent payment would come with the general payment in November 2026.²¹¹¹²

What can go wrong?

If you are paid on the basis of inaccurate data, the amount paid in error is charged back to you with interest.¹ You are then barred from the refund for the next three years.¹

Can foreign residents claim?

The law and the ministerial decision do not mention tax residence or nationality.¹³ They refer to individuals who rent a main home or student housing, and eligibility depends on the Greek E1 return, the landlord's lease declaration and the ΕΝΦΙΑ property value.¹³ This is our reading, not an official ruling. It is unclear whether a person who files a Greek return but is not tax-resident in Greece qualifies, whether property abroad counts towards the asset limit, and whether a non-Greek IBAN is accepted. If any of these apply to you, ask ΑΑΔΕ on 1521.⁵