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  "title": "Greek retirement ages are still 62 and 67: a 2010 law ties them to life expectancy, but we found no decision to change them",
  "dek": "A 2010 law says Greek retirement ages are to follow life expectancy every three years, but only through a joint ministerial decision we found no record of, and by our calculation from e-ΕΦΚΑ's own figures, pension applications in the first half of 2026 were high but still below the first half of 2022.",
  "description": "Greek retirement ages are 62 and 67. A 2010 law ties them to life expectancy by ministerial decision. We found none, and ministers see no rise ahead.",
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      {
        "group": "Workers approaching 62 or 67",
        "effect": "Nothing has changed: a full old-age pension is available at 62 with 40 years of contributions or at 67 with 15 years.[S3] Any change would need a joint decision of the finance and labour ministers, and we found no record of one.[S1][S9]"
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        "group": "Public-sector staff",
        "effect": "Law 3863/2010 names the public sector too, but a parallel provision for public-sector pensions, in law 3865/2010, says any re-setting must be made by a special law voted in Parliament. Which rule applies is unclear.[S1][S18]"
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      {
        "group": "People deciding whether to retire early",
        "effect": "Ministers said in November 2025, June 2026 and July 2026 that no increase in retirement ages is in prospect, and in 2026 the labour minister said the actuarial data do not point to one.[S7][S5][S8] The latest 'rush to retire' figures come from ENYPEKK, a group that wants all provisions for raising retirement ages scrapped, and its chair said they had not yet been officially announced.[S12][S15]"
      }
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    "action": "Nothing changes yet, and there is no official deadline to act on: the ages remain 62 with 40 years and 67 with 15 years.[S3] A change would first need a joint ministerial decision, which we found no record of.[S1][S10]"
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      "name": "Life-expectancy adjustment of retirement ages (law 3863/2010, art. 11(3))",
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        "label": "Law 3863/2010 links retirement ages to life expectancy at 65[S1][S17]",
        "date": "2010-07-15",
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        "label": "Clause applies from 1 January 2021 (first reset, covering 2010–2020); the date passed and we found no decision[S1][S9]",
        "date": "2021-01-01",
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      },
      {
        "label": "1 January 2024, the first three-yearly reset date, passed: we found no decision[S1][S10]",
        "date": "2024-01-01",
        "done": true
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      {
        "label": "Next three-year period begins 1 January 2027 (our reading of the law)[S1][S19]",
        "date": "2027-01-01",
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        "label": "Joint ministerial decision on ages for 2027–2029[S1]",
        "when": "None announced",
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    "Greek ages for a full old-age pension are 62 with 40 years of contributions and 67 with 15 years, unchanged since 1 January 2022.",
    "Law 3863/2010 says those ages are to be re-set in line with life expectancy every three years from 2024, by joint ministerial decision (κοινή υπουργική απόφαση, ΚΥΑ) of the finance and labour ministers. We found no record of any such decision.",
    "e-ΕΦΚΑ counted 110,632 pension applications in January–June 2026, all types included. By our calculation that is below the 111,744 of January–June 2022."
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      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "in.gr, reporting ENYPEKK's explanation, said the life-expectancy clause 'automatically' links the retirement age to life expectancy every three years.[S12]",
      "finding": "Article 11(3) of law 3863/2010 says the adjustment is made by a joint decision of the finance and labour ministers, issued in the last year of each period. We found no record of such a decision, and the press reports that none has been made.[S1][S2][S9][S10]"
    },
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      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "Athina 9,84 reported ENYPEKK's claim that 2026 was seeing 'the biggest wave of mass retirements of the last decade, since ΕΦΚΑ was founded'.[S15]",
      "finding": "e-ΕΦΚΑ counts pension applications, not retirements, and old-age claims were 47.4% of them in January–June 2026, by our calculation. Its table, which starts in 2019, shows 110,632 applications in January–June 2026 and, by our calculation, 111,744 in January–June 2022.[S4]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "Athina 9,84 put applications in January–August 2026 at 144,000 and called it 'a new record'.[S16]",
      "finding": "By our calculation, e-ΕΦΚΑ's figures give 144,033 for January–August 2022, so a rounded 144,000 does not establish a record. e-ΕΦΚΑ had not published figures for July and August 2026.[S4]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "164,434 pension applications were filed in January–September 2026, including 20,100 in September.[S13]",
      "finding": "These are ENYPEKK's figures and do not appear in e-ΕΦΚΑ's latest published report, which runs to June 2026. in.gr put the nine-month total at over 163,000 and reported that the figures had not yet been officially announced.[S4][S12]"
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    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "Ministers said in June and July 2026 that the data do not point to higher retirement ages.[S5][S8]",
      "finding": "Law 4336/2015 still sets 62 (with 40 years) and 67 (with 15 years) from 1 January 2022, 'subject to' the life-expectancy clause, and we found no decision changing them.[S3][S1]"
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    "Whether the government will issue a decision for 2027–2029 during 2026, as the law's timetable suggests on our reading, issue nothing, or change the law.",
    "Where the widely reported 2030 date comes from legally. We found no amending provision.",
    "Which rule governs public-sector ages: a joint ministerial decision under law 3863/2010 or a special law under law 3865/2010.",
    "How a change in life expectancy would convert into months of retirement age. The text we read does not say.",
    "Whether the ministers would use ΕΛΣΤΑΤ or Eurostat figures, and how. The two can differ.",
    "What the actuarial studies cited by the labour minister in June 2026 contain. As far as we found, they have not been published.",
    "Whether e-ΕΦΚΑ's official figures for July–September 2026 will confirm ENYPEKK's count of 164,434 applications.",
    "How much of the rise in applications is old-age retirement and how much is disability or survivors' claims. e-ΕΦΚΑ's latest report breaks new applications down by type only from June 2025."
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