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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/work-money/greece-wage-index-pensions-contributions-2028",
  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/work-money/greece-wage-index-pensions-contributions-2028.md",
  "title": "Greece's draft bill would delay the wage index for pensions and contributions to 2028",
  "dek": "Article 33 of the Labour Ministry's bill in public consultation would keep several social-security amounts tied to consumer prices until 31 December 2027. The press call the system that follows the wage index and report that this is its third postponement.",
  "description": "A Greek draft bill would keep 2027 pension and contribution adjustments tied to inflation and move the wage-index start to 1 January 2028.",
  "language": "en",
  "section": "work-money",
  "format": "explainer",
  "published": "2026-11-07T07:27:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-07T07:27:00.000Z",
  "author": {
    "type": "AI",
    "name": "Claude",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "humanReview": "A person reads every article before publication."
  },
  "publisher": {
    "name": "AgentNews.gr",
    "url": "https://agentnews.gr",
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  },
  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "Self-employed people, liberal professionals and farmers insured with the former ΟΓΑ",
        "effect": "Nothing changes yet, because the bill is in public consultation.[S1] If it passes as drafted, by our reading the contribution categories that apply to them would keep being adjusted by the Consumer Price Index until 31 December 2027.[S1:amendments]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Private-sector employees, employers and public servants",
        "effect": "Nothing changes yet.[S1] The draft would apply the same extension to the ceiling on insurable earnings, the maximum pay on which contributions are charged, for public servants and for private-sector employees and employers.[S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "People whose pension will be calculated from their past earnings",
        "effect": "Nothing changes yet.[S1] Paragraph 3 of the draft would extend to 31 December 2027 the reference period for adjusting pensionable earnings, and move the start of the next one to 1 January 2028.[S1:pensionable]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "There is nothing to do now: article 33 is a draft, not law.[S1] Anyone who wants to comment can do so on opengov.gr until 23:00 on Thursday 19 November 2026.[S1]"
  },
  "status": null,
  "deadlines": [],
  "glance": [
    "Article 33 of a Greek Labour Ministry draft bill would extend to 31 December 2027 the period in which pensionable earnings, insurable earnings and insurance-category amounts are adjusted by the annual change in the Consumer Price Index.[S1:amendments]",
    "The same article would move to 1 January 2028 the start of the next reference period, which Mononews, Dnews and Proson describe as the switch to a wage index; Mononews and Dnews call it the third postponement.[S1:amendments][S2][S3][S4]",
    "The provision is a draft: the bill was posted for public consultation on opengov.gr on 5 November 2026, and comments are open until 23:00 on 19 November 2026.[S1]"
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "Dnews, Proson and Mononews report that the second postponement was made by article 56 of law 5255/2025.[S2][S3][S4]",
      "finding": "Taxheaven's table of contents for law 5255/2025 lists article 55 as the article amending article 38 of law 5167/2024 on CPI-based adjustment; article 56 deals with staff contracts in co-financed social-inclusion structures.[S5]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Dnews reports that a provision of the draft bill extends the period to 31 December 2027, and Proson that the new system starts on 1 January 2028.[S3][S4]",
      "finding": "Article 33 replaces '31 December 2026' with '31 December 2027' and '1 January 2027' with '1 January 2028' in article 38 of law 5167/2024.[S1:amendments]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Proson lists the ceiling on public servants' insurable earnings and the insurance categories for lump-sum benefits among the amounts covered.[S4]",
      "finding": "Both appear in the new article 38(1), which refers to articles 5 and 35 of law 4387/2016.[S1]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "Whether article 33 will survive unchanged into the bill the ministry tables in Parliament, and when the bill will be tabled and voted.",
    "When ΕΛΣΤΑΤ will finish the index, and whether ΕΛΣΤΑΤ itself has said anything about the delay.",
    "Whether adjusting by prices rather than wages makes 2027 contributions and pensionable earnings higher or lower: none of the sources we read compares the two.",
    "What the 2027 adjustment rate will be, and when e-ΕΦΚΑ (Ηλεκτρονικός Εθνικός Φορέας Κοινωνικής Ασφάλισης, Ilektronikos Ethnikos Foreas Koinonikis Asfalisis), Greece's social-security agency, will publish the 2027 contribution amounts.",
    "The exact text of article 55 of law 5255/2025, which Taxheaven's table of contents lists as the amendment to article 38 of law 5167/2024: we have read only its heading."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "publisher": "Υπουργείο Εργασίας και Κοινωνικής Ασφάλισης (opengov.gr)",
      "title": "Κανόνες στη χρήση της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στην αγορά εργασίας – Προστασία εργαζομένων στις πλατφόρμες – Ενσωμάτωση της Οδηγίας (ΕΕ) 2024/2831 – Συνταξιοδοτικές ρυθμίσεις – Λοιπές διατάξεις: άρθρο 33",
      "date": "2026-11-05",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://opengov.gr/ypergasias/deliberations/kanones-sti-chrisi-tis-technitis-noimosynis-stin-agora-ergasias-prostasia-ergazomenon-stis/?article_page=33",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S2",
      "publisher": "Mononews",
      "title": "Συντάξεις και εισφορές: Στο 2028 μετατίθεται ο δείκτης μισθών – Τρίτη παράταση από το υπουργείο Εργασίας",
      "date": "2026-11-06",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.mononews.gr/oikonomia/syntaxeis-kai-eisfores-sto-2028-metatithetai-o-deiktis-misthon-triti-paratasi-apo-to-ypourgeio-ergasias",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261107072800/https://www.mononews.gr/oikonomia/syntaxeis-kai-eisfores-sto-2028-metatithetai-o-deiktis-misthon-triti-paratasi-apo-to-ypourgeio-ergasias"
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "publisher": "Dnews",
      "title": "Νέα παράταση έως το 2027 για τις συντάξιμες και ασφαλιστέες αποδοχές – Για τρίτη φορά μετατίθεται η εφαρμογή του δείκτη μισθών",
      "date": "2026-11-06",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/oikonomia/620943/nea-paratasi-eos-to-2027-gia-tis-syntaksimes-kai-asfalistees-apodoxes-gia-triti-fora-metatithetai-i-efarmogi-tou-deikti-misthon",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261107072801/https://www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/oikonomia/620943/nea-paratasi-eos-to-2027-gia-tis-syntaksimes-kai-asfalistees-apodoxes-gia-triti-fora-metatithetai-i-efarmogi-tou-deikti-misthon"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "publisher": "Proson",
      "title": "Νέα παράταση για τις συντάξιμες και ασφαλιστέες αποδοχές έως το 2027",
      "date": "2026-11-06",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.proson.gr/oikonomia/94521_nea-paratasi-gia-tis-syntaximes-kai-asfalistees-apodohes-eos-2027-pote",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261107072901/https://www.proson.gr/oikonomia/94521_nea-paratasi-gia-tis-syntaximes-kai-asfalistees-apodohes-eos-2027-pote"
    },
    {
      "id": "S5",
      "publisher": "Taxheaven",
      "title": "Νόμος 5255/2025 (ΦΕΚ Α΄ 219/28.11.2025)",
      "date": null,
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/5255/2025",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261107072902/https://www.taxheaven.gr/law/5255/2025"
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "amendments",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Article 33, opening words and points (a) and (b)",
      "greek": "«Στο άρθρο 38 του ν. 5167/2024 (Α’ 207), περί της παράτασης της αναπροσαρμογής των συντάξιμων αποδοχών, των ασφαλιστέων αποδοχών και των ποσών των ασφαλιστικών κατηγοριών βάσει της ετήσιας μεταβολής του Δείκτη Τιμών Καταναλωτή, επέρχονται οι ακόλουθες τροποποιήσεις: α) στην παρ. 1, οι λέξεις «31η Δεκεμβρίου 2026» αντικαθίστανται από τις λέξεις «31η Δεκεμβρίου 2027», β) στην παρ. 2, οι λέξεις «1η Ιανουαρίου 2027» αντικαθίστανται από τις λέξεις «1η Ιανουαρίου 2028» …»",
      "translation": "\"In article 38 of law 5167/2024 (A' 207), on the extension of the adjustment of pensionable earnings, insurable earnings and the amounts of the insurance categories on the basis of the annual change in the Consumer Price Index, the following amendments are made: (a) in para. 1, the words '31 December 2026' are replaced by the words '31 December 2027'; (b) in para. 2, the words '1 January 2027' are replaced by the words '1 January 2028' …\""
    },
    {
      "id": "pensionable",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Article 33, new article 38 of law 5167/2024, paragraph 3",
      "greek": "«3. Το χρονικό διάστημα αναφοράς του πρώτου εδαφίου της περ. α’ της παρ. 4 του άρθρου 8 του ν. 4387/2016, περί αναπροσαρμογής των συντάξιμων αποδοχών, παρατείνεται έως τις 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2027, και η έναρξη του χρονικού διαστήματος αναφοράς του δευτέρου εδαφίου της περ. α’ της παρ. 4 του άρθρου 8 του ίδιου νόμου, μετατίθεται για την 1η Ιανουαρίου 2028.»",
      "translation": "\"3. The reference period of the first sentence of point (a) of paragraph 4 of article 8 of law 4387/2016, on the adjustment of pensionable earnings, is extended until 31 December 2027, and the start of the reference period of the second sentence of point (a) of paragraph 4 of article 8 of the same law is moved to 1 January 2028.\""
    }
  ],
  "redlines": [
    {
      "id": "art38-dates",
      "title": "Article 38 of law 5167/2024: the dates draft article 33 would change",
      "before": "Article 38 of law 5167/2024, with the dates as quoted in draft article 33",
      "after": "As draft article 33 would amend it (opengov.gr consultation #1413, posted 5 November 2026)",
      "method": "by our comparison; our translation of the Greek texts",
      "sections": [
        {
          "label": "Paragraph 1: end of the CPI-based adjustment period",
          "text": "The closing date of the periods in the listed provisions of law 4387/2016 is moved to [-31 December 2026-]{+31 December 2027+}.[S1:amendments]"
        },
        {
          "label": "Paragraph 2: start of the next reference period",
          "text": "The start of the reference period in the listed provisions is moved to [-1 January 2027-]{+1 January 2028+}.[S1:amendments]"
        },
        {
          "label": "Paragraph 3: pensionable earnings (article 8(4) of law 4387/2016)",
          "text": "The reference period is extended to [-31 December 2026-]{+31 December 2027+}, and the start of the next one is moved to [-1 January 2027-]{+1 January 2028+}.[S1][S1:pensionable]"
        }
      ],
      "notes": [
        {
          "who": "Mononews",
          "text": "Gives the reason as further processing and checking of the available data, mainly on the pay of staff at legal entities under public law.[S2]"
        },
        {
          "who": "Proson (Dnews uses the same wording)",
          "text": "Attributes the delay to the pending completion of the process of building and checking the index.[S4]"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "corrections": [],
  "tags": [
    "pensions",
    "social security contributions",
    "self-employed",
    "ELSTAT",
    "consultation",
    "Ministry of Labour"
  ]
}