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  "title": "What Greece's new bill would change for borrowers and loan servicers",
  "dek": "A draft law in public consultation would put restructuring requests on a timetable, protect borrowers who keep paying and tighten oversight of the firms that manage bad loans. None of it is law yet.",
  "description": "Greece's draft law on loan servicers, open for comment until 22 October, would cap down-payments at 15% and fine lenders who pursue paying borrowers.",
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  "section": "work-money",
  "format": "explainer",
  "published": "2026-10-08T10:23:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-08T10:23:00.000Z",
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Borrowers more than 90 days behind",
        "effect": "Lenders would have to answer a restructuring request within three months and could ask for no more than 15% of the principal up front.[S1][S9]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Borrowers keeping to a restructuring",
        "effect": "Pursuing you would be void, you would be credited five instalments, and the creditor would face a fine of €50,000–€500,000.[S1][S9]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Anyone whose loan a servicer manages",
        "effect": "You could ask for your full debt file, free, within 45 days.[S1][S9]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing changes yet: this is a draft.[S1] You can comment on opengov.gr until 10:00 on Thursday 22 October 2026.[S2][S4]"
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  "status": {
    "checked": "2026-10-08",
    "legislation": {
      "name": "Draft law on stronger supervision of loans managed by servicers and protection of borrowers who keep paying (in public consultation)",
      "legalForce": "NotInForce"
    },
    "steps": [
      {
        "label": "Bill published for public consultation[S4]",
        "date": "2026-10-07",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Consultation closes[S1]",
        "date": "2026-10-22",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Tabled and voted in Parliament[S1]",
        "when": "Target: first week of November",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Bank of Greece issues the decisions the bill relies on[S9]",
        "when": "Not scheduled",
        "done": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "deadlines": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-22",
      "label": "Loan servicers bill: public comments close at 10:00"
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  "glance": [
    "Proposed, not law: comments close on Thursday 22 October 2026 at 10:00, and the ministry wants the bill passed in the first week of November.",
    "Lenders would have three months to answer a restructuring request and could ask for no more than 15% of the principal up front; the existing duty to make an offer before an auction would get minimum standards.",
    "Pursuing a borrower who keeps to a restructuring would be void, would earn the borrower a credit of five instalments and would bring a fine of €50,000–€500,000 per borrower."
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "The ministry's summary presents the written restructuring offer before an auction as a new measure.[S1]",
      "finding": "Creditors already have to make that offer under article 182 of law 5193/2025. The bill would amend the rule, not create it.[S9]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Lenders could ask for no more than 15% up front.[S1]",
      "finding": "Confirmed in article 229, which measures the 15% against the loan principal and lets the lender waive or reduce it.[S9]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "The ministry says protection would extend to parents of children with a certified disability of at least 67%.[S1]",
      "finding": "We did not find this provision in the bill text.[S9]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "Tax and social-security debts in up to 120 instalments.",
      "finding": "Announced separately on 30 September. It is not in this bill or in the ministry's summary of it.[S1][S6][S9]"
    }
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  "unknowns": [
    "Which law will carry the separate 120-instalment scheme for tax and social-security debts, and when applications open.",
    "Whether the text will change after the consultation, and whether the vote will happen in the first week of November.",
    "The Bank of Greece decisions the bill relies on (required documents, the minimum content of offers, contact points) have not been issued.",
    "Where the wider protection for parents of children with a disability sits: we did not find it in the bill text."
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