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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-rent-refund-november-2026",
  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greece-rent-refund-november-2026.md",
  "title": "Greece's rent refund: one month of 2025 rent back, with payment announced for 30 November",
  "dek": "ΑΑΔΕ, the tax authority, pays it automatically from your 2025 tax return; the deadline for corrections has passed, but special cases can still file a myAADE request, and those filed by 20 October are meant to be paid by the end of November.",
  "description": "Eligible tenants in Greece get a month of 2025 rent back, up to €800 plus €50 per child, announced for 30 November. Who qualifies and what to check.",
  "language": "en",
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  "published": "2026-10-08T16:26:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-08T16:26:00.000Z",
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Tenants renting their main home in Greece",
        "effect": "If your 2025 family income and your property holdings are within the limits, ΑΑΔΕ pays one-twelfth of your 2025 rent, up to €800 plus €50 per dependent child, by the end of November 2026. [S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Families paying rent for a student's home",
        "effect": "The student-housing refund is up to €800 a year for each student, and only the income limit applies, with no asset test. [S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Public-school teachers and special-education staff, and public-sector health staff (ΕΣΥ doctors and dentists, nurses, ΕΚΑΒ ambulance crews and others) serving outside Attica (except its islands) and the Thessaloniki regional unit",
        "effect": "Article 70Α brings the refund to two-twelfths of the previous year's rent for a main home you rent in the region where you serve, with no income or asset test; if you also get the general refund, it adds one extra twelfth. Both together are capped at €1,600 a year plus €100 per dependent child. [S2] [S4]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing changes in the rules now and there is nothing to apply for if your 2025 return and your landlord's lease declaration were in order. Check that your IBAN is registered on myAADE. Special cases can file a request with documents on myAADE by 20 October 2026, which is meant to allow payment by the end of November, and no later than 31 December 2026. [S3] [S5]"
  },
  "status": null,
  "deadlines": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-20",
      "label": "Rent refund: last day for myAADE special-case requests aimed at payment by the end of November 2026"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-11-30",
      "label": "Rent refund: payment date announced by the government (the law says by the end of November)"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-12-31",
      "label": "Rent refund: final day for myAADE special-case requests on 2025 rent (requests after 20 October may be paid later)"
    }
  ],
  "glance": [
    "Tenants who meet the income and asset limits get one-twelfth of the rent they paid in 2025, up to €800 plus €50 per dependent child, with no application.",
    "The law says the refund is paid by the end of November; the government spokesman has announced 30 November 2026 as the payment date.",
    "The deadline for correcting 2025 tax returns passed on 30 September 2026. Special cases can still file a request on myAADE; requests filed by 20 October 2026 are meant to allow payment by the end of November."
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "The government housing portal gives the limit for a single person as €25,000 of annual taxable income («φορολογητέο εισόδημα»). [S6]",
      "finding": "The law counts total family income, taxed and tax-exempt, actual and deemed, not just taxable income. [S1] [S3]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "The refund will be paid on 30 November 2026, the government spokesman said on 28 September. [S11] [S12]",
      "finding": "The law sets no date, only a deadline: the refund is paid once, by the end of November. 30 November 2026 is the government's announced date. [S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Only teachers and health workers in the regions get two months' rent back; other tenants get one month. [S17]",
      "finding": "Article 70Α pays two-twelfths in total (one extra twelfth on top of the general refund) to teachers and health staff renting where they serve outside Attica (except its islands) and the Thessaloniki regional unit, capped at €1,600 plus €100 per child. Everyone else gets one-twelfth. [S2] [S4]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Regional teachers, doctors and nurses can get up to four rent payments back this autumn. [S18]",
      "finding": "Only across two rent years: up to two-twelfths for 2024 (one, if already paid in November 2025), credited on 25 September 2026, plus two-twelfths for 2025 due in November 2026. [S4] [S8] [S11]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Corrections to the 2025 tax return had to be made by 30 September 2026. [S9] [S10]",
      "finding": "The law and the decision use the tax return as it stood on the last working day of September of the payment year, which was Wednesday 30 September 2026. [S1] [S3]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "Whether people who file a Greek tax return but are not Greek tax residents qualify. The law and the decision do not mention tax residence.",
    "Whether property held abroad counts towards the asset limit, which is measured on the ΕΝΦΙΑ property tax assessment.",
    "Whether a non-Greek (SEPA) IBAN is accepted for the payment.",
    "Whether myAADE will show the amount before payment day, and whether the request menu has changed since 2025.",
    "Whether there will be a December second chance for amended returns, as there was in 2025.",
    "How many tenants will actually be paid, against the government's estimate of more than one million."
  ],
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      "official": false,
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      "publisher": "e-nomothesia.gr",
      "title": "Νόμος 5313/2026 - ΦΕΚ 102/Α/25-6-2026 (Κωδικοποιημένος)",
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      "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών (ΥΠΕΘΟΟ) and ΑΑΔΕ",
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