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Benefits when moving to or returning to Greece

The benefits that may apply to you in this situation. Each page explains amounts, eligibility and how to apply, with a link to the official source.

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Active benefits(9)

  • Aggregation of Insurance Periods for EU Pensions (Regulation 883/2004)

    Insured people who have worked in more than one EU/EEA country and do not complete the minimum insurance period on their own in any single country

    Body: e-ΕΦΚΑ

  • Asylum Seekers' Right to Work

    Applicants for international protection may work 60 days after their application is registered, if no first-instance decision has been issued, with no separate permit. Recognised refugees and subsidiary-protection beneficiaries have full access without waiting.

    Body: ΦΕΚ Α΄ 90/11.06.2026 — ν. 5307/2026, άρθρο 32

  • Form S1: Healthcare in the EU Country Where You Live

    If you are insured or a pensioner in one EU/EEA country, Switzerland or the United Kingdom and live in another, form S1 gives you healthcare in the country where you live.

    Body: e-ΕΦΚΑ — Φορητό έγγραφο S1

  • Allowance for Ethnic-Greek Refugees (Omogeneis)

    Welfare allowance for ethnic Greek returnees (omogeneis) with limited means who are over 60 or unable to work and have no relatives able to support them, and for ethnic Greek students with limited means. The application is filed with the social services of the municipality of residence, which carries out a social assessment.

    Body: Δήμος Καρδίτσας — Επίδομα ομογενών (διαδικασία)

  • Relocation to Evros, Macedonia and Epirus: €10,000

    Support of €10,000, in two instalments of €5,000, for people who move their main residence to municipalities in Evros, Drama, Florina, Kilkis, Serres, Pella, Kastoria, Kozani, Grevena, Ioannina or Thesprotia. Applications from 14/10/2026 at relocation.vouchers.gov.gr.

    Body: ΦΕΚ Β΄ 6139/09.10.2026 — ΚΥΑ 22695/2026 (Πρόγραμμα Δημογραφικής Ανάπτυξης)

  • Cross-Border Family Benefits When a Parent Works in Another EU State

    Families where one parent works in another EU country while the children live in Greece (or the other way round) - the right to receive the higher family benefit of the two countries, with the difference paid as a supplement

    Body: ΟΠΕΚΑ

  • Voluntary Return and Reintegration Assistance Programme (IOM/AVRR)

    Third-country national or stateless person in Greece.

    Body: Υπ. Μετανάστευσης & Ασύλου / Διεθνής Οργανισμός Μετανάστευσης (ΔΟΜ/IOM)

  • Temporary Insurance and Healthcare Number for Foreigners (PAAYPA)

    Applicants for international protection (asylum) in Greece, from the moment the application is lodged

    Body: Υπ. Μετανάστευσης

  • HELIOS JUNIOR — housing and integration support for former unaccompanied minors after they turn 18

    A Ministry of Migration and Asylum programme, run by IOM, for young people aged 18–21 who came as unaccompanied minors. It provides a supervised flat for up to 18 months, a cash allowance on a prepaid card for 16 months, Greek lessons and vocational training.

    Body: Υπουργείο Μετανάστευσης και Ασύλου (υλοποίηση: Διεθνής Οργανισμός Μετανάστευσης — ΔΟΜ Ελλάδας)

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Under review(12)

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  • Article 5A ITC - Alternative Taxation for High-Net-Worth Foreign Tax Residents Relocating to Greece

    High-net-worth individuals who are tax residents abroad, move their tax residence to Greece and make an investment/set up an investment unit or create jobs in Greece, under the conditions of Article 5A.

    Body: ΑΑΔΕUnder review

  • Article 5B ITC - Alternative Taxation for Foreign Pension Income (Relocating Pensioners)

    Individuals who receive a pension from abroad and move their tax residence to Greece, under the conditions of article 5B.

    Body: ΑΑΔΕUnder review

  • Article 5C ITC - Special Taxation for Employment/Business Income of New Tax Residents

    Individuals who are tax residents abroad, move their tax residence to Greece and earn income from employment or business activity in Greece. The application to join the regime is made online through a special application on myAADE, with TAXISnet credentials.

    Body: ΑΑΔΕUnder review

  • Free Legal Assistance for International Protection Applicants

    Applicants for international protection, during the administrative examination of the asylum application and the appeal to the Appeals Authority

    Body: Υπ. ΜετανάστευσηςUnder review

  • National Referral Mechanism & Protection for Trafficking Victims

    Victims of human trafficking/labour or sexual exploitation, unaccompanied minors

    Body: Εθνικό Κέντρο Κοινωνικής Αλληλεγγύης (ΕΚΚΑ) — Εθνικός Μηχανισμός ΑναφοράςUnder review

  • Social Solidarity Allowance for Members of the Greek Minority in Albania

    Monthly OPEKA allowance for uninsured older people aged 67 or over who are members of the Greek minority in Albania and live in Greece or permanently in Albania.

    Body: ΟΠΕΚΑUnder review

  • Information Guide for Beneficiaries of International Protection

    A guide with the basic information that recognised refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection need in order to use the general (mainstream) rights and services in Greece: first steps after recognition of status, work, housing, education and health care. Available in many languages (English, French, Somali, Lingala, Arabic, Sorani, Farsi, Urdu).

    Body: Υπ. ΜετανάστευσηςUnder review

  • "Kalypsi" (Coverage) housing assistance programme

    Members of households receiving the Guaranteed Minimum Income (EEE), aged 25–39 on 31.03.2023 (about 28–43 today). The programme's flats come from former ESTIA II/ESTIA 2021 housing units.

    Body: ΔΥΠΑUnder review

  • Education Support for Refugee/Asylum-Seeker Children (ACE Programme)

    Minor children of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers living in accommodation facilities of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum have the right to free public education. The ACE programme provides supplementary non-formal education (language support, help with school subjects) in cooperation with UNICEF.

    Body: Υπ. ΜετανάστευσηςUnder review

  • Aggregation of EU insurance/employment periods for the Greek regular unemployment benefit (PDU1/SED U002)

    Mobile unemployed people within the EU/EEA/Switzerland/UK who have worked in another Member State and need their insurance periods to be counted towards entitlement to, or the amount of, the Greek regular unemployment benefit. Former self-employed persons insured with the former OAEE, ETAA or ETAP-MME funds are expressly excluded.

    Body: ΔΥΠΑUnder review

  • Customs and Tax Exemptions for Relocating One's Habitual Residence to Greece

    An individual whose normal residence has been abroad for at least 2 years (185+ days a year because of personal/occupational ties) and who moves it permanently to Greece, or declares the intention to do so within 24 months (pensioners: within 36 months). One private passenger car is allowed if it was used for at least 6 months before the move (the six-month use rule does not apply to people coming from America/Africa/Oceania/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Saudi Arabia/Bahrain/Qatar/UAE). A certificate of change of residence from a Greek consular authority is required, valid for 12 months. Vehicles for public use, goods of commercial value, and alcohol/tobacco are not covered.

    Body: ΑΑΔΕUnder review

  • HELIOS+ Integration Support for Beneficiaries of International Protection

    Beneficiaries of international protection (refugees, subsidiary protection), their family members with a family-reunification or equivalent permit and beneficiaries of temporary protection, within 24 months of the decision or permit, with a DYPA unemployment card.

    Body: Υπ. ΜετανάστευσηςUnder review

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