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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/guides/greek-pensioners-400-payment-2027-rise",
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  "title": "Greece's draft budget plans €400 for every pensioner over 65 in November and a 2.8% rise in 2027, but the law still says €300",
  "dek": "The draft 2027 budget plans a €400 November payment for every pensioner over 65 and projects a 2.8% pension rise from January, but the €400 still needs a new law, the 2.8% awaits a ministerial decision, and it is unclear whether pensioners living abroad qualify.",
  "description": "Greece's draft budget plans €400 for all pensioners over 65 in November and projects a 2.8% rise for 2027. The law still says €300. Who would qualify.",
  "language": "en",
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  "published": "2026-10-09T11:17:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-09T11:17:00.000Z",
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Pensioners over 65",
        "effect": "Under the draft budget, every pensioner over 65 would get €400 net in November 2026, with no income or property test. The law in force still says €300, with limits, until it is amended. [S2][S3][S4][S5]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Pensioners under 65",
        "effect": "Old-age pensioners under 65 are not included, even early retirees. The exceptions are people over 60 who receive only a survivor's pension and people with disabilities of any age. [S2][S6]"
      },
      {
        "group": "People with disabilities and uninsured older people",
        "effect": "The draft budget would give them the same €400, whatever their age if they have a disability. Reports count about 176,600 e-ΕΦΚΑ disability pensioners, 171,700 ΟΠΕΚΑ disability-allowance recipients and 49,600 uninsured older people. [S2][S4][S8]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Pensioners living abroad",
        "effect": "Unclear. We found no residence condition in the current law or in reports, but nothing confirms that pensioners abroad will be paid. [S3][S4]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing to do yet. Reports say the payment is automatic, with no application, and is due on 30 November 2026. Who gets it, and how much, depends on a new law that had not been tabled by 9 October 2026. [S7][S8][S3]"
  },
  "status": {
    "checked": "2026-10-09",
    "legislation": {
      "name": "€400 November support for pensioners (amending art. 72 of law 5217/2025) and 2027 pension indexation",
      "legalForce": "NotInForce"
    },
    "steps": [
      {
        "label": "€400 payment for all pensioners over 65, announced in September 2026 at the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair (ΔΕΘ), and the 2.8% rise included in the draft 2027 budget tabled in Parliament [S1][S2][S5]",
        "date": "2026-10-05",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Law amending article 72 of law 5217/2025 to raise the payment to €400 and drop the income test [S3]",
        "when": "Not yet tabled as of 9 October 2026",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "November support paid, by 30 November under the law in force [S3][S8]",
        "date": "2026-11-30",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Joint ministerial decision setting the 2027 pension rise, issued by 31 December under the rule quoted in the ministry circular; last year's was dated 5 December 2025 [S10][S9]",
        "when": "Due by 31 December 2026",
        "done": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "deadlines": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-30",
      "label": "Greek pensioners' November support payment due (law says by 30 November; €400 if the planned change is passed)"
    }
  ],
  "glance": [
    "Greece's draft 2027 budget says the November support for pensioners rises to €400 net from November 2026 and goes to all pensioners over 65 as well as people with disabilities and uninsured older people, about 2.2 million beneficiaries in all, at a cost of €879 million. Reports put the over-65s at about 1.78 million. [S2][S4][S8]",
    "The law in force, article 72 of law 5217/2025, still sets the payment at €300 with income and property limits, and we found no amendment tabled by 9 October 2026. [S3]",
    "The draft budget calculates a 2.8% rise in all pensions from 1 January 2027, but the final rate is set by a joint ministerial decision under a legal formula. [S2][S9]"
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "Ethnos reported that about 2.3 million pensioners will receive the €400 [S7]",
      "finding": "The draft 2027 budget counts 2.2 million beneficiaries in all, 270,000 of them new, and that total includes people with disabilities and uninsured older people, not only pensioners [S2]."
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "ERT and Capital.gr report the €400 for all pensioners over 65 with no income or property criteria [S4][S5]",
      "finding": "That is in the draft budget [S2], but article 72 of law 5217/2025 still sets €300 with income limits of €25,000/€35,000 and property limits of €300,000/€400,000 [S3]. We found no amendment tabled by 9 October 2026."
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Ta Nea and NewsIT report a 2.8% pension rise from 1 January 2027 [S11][S12]",
      "finding": "The draft budget calculates the rise at 2.8%, at a cost of €807 million, from its macroeconomic estimates [S2]. The binding rate is set later by joint ministerial decision under article 14 of law 4387/2016 [S9]; last year's was dated 5 December 2025 [S10]."
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "ERT puts the cost of the €400 payment at €879 million [S4]",
      "finding": "The draft budget gives €879 million [S2]: €578 million for the €300 payment already legislated plus €301 million for extending it to all over-65s, by our calculation from its Table 2.5."
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "When the government will table the provision that raises the payment to €400 and removes the income and property tests, and whether Parliament will pass it before 30 November 2026.",
    "Whether e-ΕΦΚΑ pensioners who live abroad, including those paid abroad or receiving pro-rata EU pensions, will receive the payment.",
    "Whether the new rule keeps the age test of 65 by 31 December of the previous year, which would leave out people who turn 65 during 2026.",
    "The final 2027 rise. The draft budget does not set out its full workings, and the final budget report in November may revise the figures the decision relies on.",
    "The draft budget gives the current amount as €300 in most places, but one passage describes the change as 'from €250 to €400'. Another passage says the rise from €250 to €300 was announced in April 2026, so the €250 appears to be last year's amount; the draft does not say so directly.",
    "Which law ended the offset of pension rises against the personal difference from 2027. The draft budget lists it as already legislated, but we have not traced the provision itself.",
    "Who exactly benefits from abolishing the 50% cut to survivors' pensions, and from which date.",
    "Whether income-tax scales change for 2027, which would affect how much of the rise pensioners keep."
  ],
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      "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών (Ministry of National Economy and Finance)",
      "title": "Κατατέθηκε στη Διαρκή Επιτροπή Οικονομικών Υποθέσεων της Βουλής το Προσχέδιο του Κρατικού Προϋπολογισμού 2027",
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://minfin.gov.gr/katatethike-sti-diarki-epitropi-oikonomikon-ypotheseon-tis-voulis-to-proschedio-tou-kratikou-proypologismou-2027/",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εθνικής Οικονομίας και Οικονομικών (Ministry of National Economy and Finance)",
      "title": "Προσχέδιο Κρατικού Προϋπολογισμού 2027 (Draft State Budget 2027, PDF)",
      "date": "2026-10-05",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://minfin.gov.gr/proschedio-kratikou-proypologismou-2027/",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven (text of the law)",
      "title": "Ν. 5217/2025, άρθρο 72: Ετήσια οικονομική ενίσχυση ευάλωτων κοινωνικών ομάδων",
      "date": null,
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/5217/2025/arthro/72",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009111725/https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/5217/2025/arthro/72"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "publisher": "ERT News",
      "title": "Συνταξιούχοι: 400 ευρώ αφορολόγητα τον Νοέμβριο, χωρίς εισοδηματικά κριτήρια – Ποιοι είναι οι δικαιούχοι",
      "date": "2026-09-13",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/oikonomia/syntaksiouxoi-400-eyro-aforologita-ton-noemvrio-xoris-eisodimatika-kritiria-poioi-einai-oi-dikaiouxoi/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009111822/https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/oikonomia/syntaksiouxoi-400-eyro-aforologita-ton-noemvrio-xoris-eisodimatika-kritiria-poioi-einai-oi-dikaiouxoi/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S5",
      "publisher": "Capital.gr",
      "title": "Τι άλλαξε στα κριτήρια για την καταβολή της ενίσχυσης των 400 ευρώ στους συνταξιούχους",
      "date": "2026-09-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.capital.gr/oikonomia/4015671/ti-allaxe-sta-kritiria-gia-tin-kataboli-tis-enisxusis-ton-400-euro-stous-suntaxiouxous/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009111829/https://www.capital.gr/oikonomia/4015671/ti-allaxe-sta-kritiria-gia-tin-kataboli-tis-enisxusis-ton-400-euro-stous-suntaxiouxous/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S6",
      "publisher": "NewsIT",
      "title": "Ενίσχυση 400 ευρώ: Δικαιούχοι συνταξιούχοι βουλευτές και υψηλοσυνταξιούχοι, εκτός χιλιάδες χαμηλοσυνταξιούχοι",
      "date": "2026-10-07",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.newsit.gr/oikonomia/xristika/enisxysi-400-eyro-dikaiouxoi-syntaksiouxoi-vouleytes-kai-ypsilosyntaksiouxoi-ektos-xiliades-xamilosyntaksiouxoi/4792325/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009111835/https://www.newsit.gr/oikonomia/xristika/enisxysi-400-eyro-dikaiouxoi-syntaksiouxoi-vouleytes-kai-ypsilosyntaksiouxoi-ektos-xiliades-xamilosyntaksiouxoi/4792325/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S7",
      "publisher": "Έθνος (Ethnos)",
      "title": "Επίδομα 400 ευρώ: Ποιοι το δικαιούνται, πότε θα το δουν στους λογαριασμούς τους",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.ethnos.gr/Economy/article/423121/epidoma400eyropoioitodikaioyntaipotethatodoynstoyslogariasmoystoys",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009111932/https://www.ethnos.gr/Economy/article/423121/epidoma400eyropoioitodikaioyntaipotethatodoynstoyslogariasmoystoys"
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      "id": "S8",
      "publisher": "Taxrevenue.gr",
      "title": "Ενίσχυση Συνταξιούχων 400 Ευρώ",
      "date": "2026-10-02",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://taxrevenue.gr/enisxysi-syntaxiouchon-400-evro/",
      "archive": null
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      "publisher": "Lawspot (text of the law)",
      "title": "Ν. 4387/2016, άρθρο 14: Αναπροσαρμογή συντάξεων – προστασία καταβαλλόμενων συντάξεων",
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      "language": "el",
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      "url": "https://www.lawspot.gr/nomothesia/n-4387-2016/arthro-14-nomos-4387-2016-anaprosarmogi-syntaxeon/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261009111948/https://www.lawspot.gr/nomothesia/n-4387-2016/arthro-14-nomos-4387-2016-anaprosarmogi-syntaxeon/"
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    {
      "id": "S10",
      "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εργασίας (Ministry of Labour), via Taxheaven",
      "title": "Εγκύκλιος Φ.80020/7757/17-03-2026: Οδηγίες για την εφαρμογή του συντελεστή αύξησης κύριων συντάξεων από 01.01.2026",
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      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/circulars/52421/f-80020-7757-17-03-2026",
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      "id": "S11",
      "publisher": "Τα Νέα (Ta Nea)",
      "title": "Συντάξεις: Η αύξηση 2,8% και τα χρήματα που θα μπουν τελικά στους τραπεζικούς λογαριασμούς – Το «ψαλίδισμα» της εφορίας",
      "date": "2026-10-09",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.tanea.gr/2026/10/09/economy/syntakseis-i-ayksisi-28-kai-ta-xrimata-pou-tha-mpoun-telika-stous-trapezikous-logariasmous-to-psalidisma-tis-eforias/",
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      "publisher": "NewsIT",
      "title": "Συντάξεις: Η αύξηση 2,8% «ψαλιδίζεται» από την Εφορία – Τι θα πάρουν στο χέρι οι συνταξιούχοι, με παραδείγματα",
      "date": "2026-10-06",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.newsit.gr/oikonomia/xristika/syntakseis-i-ayksisi-2-8-psalidizetai-apo-tin-eforia-ti-tha-paroun-sto-xeri-oi-syntaksiouxoi-me-paradeigmata/4791341/",
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  "tags": [
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    "e-EFKA",
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    "budget 2027",
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