Benefits and allowances in the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
This page lists 19 local benefits in the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
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Across the region (2)
DYPA pilot work-experience programme in livestock farming for 250 unemployed people (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace)
Unemployed people over 18, registered with DYPA in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, who have completed the 50-hour biosecurity training for livestock farms, are placed for 6 months with livestock businesses and paid €34 a day. The local DYPA office (KPA2) refers them; they do not apply themselves.
Body: ΔΥΠΑ — Υπουργείο Εργασίας και Κοινωνικής ΑσφάλισηςUpcoming
DYPA hiring subsidy for 2,000 unemployed people aged 18+ in the East Macedonia and Thrace region
DYPA subsidises, for 12 months, private businesses in East Macedonia and Thrace that hire registered unemployed people aged 18+ from the region. The unemployed person does not apply; a DYPA job counsellor puts them forward.
Body: ΔΥΠΑ
In several municipalities (5)
Free Toll Passage on the Egnatia Motorway for Permanent Residents of Neighbouring Areas
Permanent residents of Thrace, Thesprotia, Metsovo, Pangaio, Kastoria and Florina pass free of charge through the Egnatia Motorway main-line toll station of their area, with an exemption card.
14 municipalities in the region
Body: ΦΕΚ Β΄4156/2017 — Απόφαση ΔΝΣ/οικ.84646/ΦΝ 393/27.11.2017
Aid for beekeepers on the smaller Aegean islands (up to €14 per hive)
A yearly payment for active beekeepers who live permanently on the smaller Aegean islands (all except Crete and Evia): €4 per hive, plus €2 for each kilo of honey per hive you sold legally, up to €14 per hive. Applications every year from 1 September to 20 October.
Municipalities: Thasos and Samothrace
Body: Υπουργείο Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Τροφίμων — ΥΑ 391799/2024 (ΦΕΚ Β΄ 6946/2024, ΑΔΑ Ψ4ΑΜ4653ΠΓ-ΤΙΕ)Upcoming
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.
8 municipalities in the region
Body: ΦΕΚ Β΄ 6139/09.10.2026 — ΚΥΑ 22695/2026 (Πρόγραμμα Δημογραφικής Ανάπτυξης)
Housing and Work for the Homeless III
Rent and basic-needs subsidy, psychosocial support, subsidised work and training for people and families living without a home, in 89 participating municipalities. You join through the municipality's social service, until December 2028.
Municipalities: Alexandroupoli, Komotini and Samothrace
Body: Πύλη Στεγαστικής Πολιτικής — Στέγαση και Εργασία για αστέγους ΙΙΙ
Thessaly-Evros Pass 2026
Adult tax residents of Greece (tax return for tax year 2025), without a main residence at the chosen destination, who have not been selected for another social tourism programme in the 2025-2027 period
Municipalities: Alexandroupoli and Soufli
Body: Υπ. Ψηφιακής ΔιακυβέρνησηςApplications closed
By municipality
Municipality of Alexandroupoli(1)
DEYA Alexandroupoli social tariff: 50% off water for large, three-child and single-parent families and disability 80%+
DEYA Alexandroupoli cuts water and sewerage fees by 50% for large families, three-child families with income up to €35,000, single parents with income up to €18,000 and families with a disability of 80% or more with income up to €35,000.
Body: ΔΕΥΑ Αλεξανδρούπολης — Κοινωνικά Τιμολόγια (deyaalex.gr)
Municipality of Didymoteicho(1)
Didymoteicho water utility: reduced water tariff for large families, three-child families and families with a person with a disability
The Didymoteicho water utility applies to large and three-child families the reduced tariff of its «Families with a disabled member» category: in the town €0.32 per cubic metre up to 50 cubic metres, in the villages €0.25 up to 100.
Municipality of Doxato(1)
DEYA Doxatou social water tariff (50%/75% reduction or full waiver of water and sewerage charges for vulnerable groups)
DEYA Doxatou cuts by 50% or 75%, or waives in full, the fixed water and sewerage charges and the first 240 m³ for single parents, three-child and large families, people with disabilities, pensioners living alone and KEA recipients with low income. Documents are renewed every year by the end of February (next time by 28/02/2027).
Body: ΔΕΥΑ Δοξάτου (Δημοτική Επιχείρηση Ύδρευσης Αποχέτευσης Δοξάτου) — κωδικοποιημένη τιμολογιακή πολιτική 69/2026 (Διαύγεια)
Municipality of Drama(1)
DEYA Drama social water tariffs: large, three-child and single-parent families, disabled people, young couples and young professionals
DEYA Drama gives 60% off to large families, 50% to people with disabilities, 30% to low-income three-child and single-parent families, and free water up to 200 cubic metres a year for 3 years to young couples and young professionals.
Body: ΔΕΥΑ Δράμας — Κοινωνικά Τιμολόγια (deyad.gr) και αποφάσεις του Δήμου Δράμας (Διαύγεια)
Municipality of Thasos(1)
DEYA Thasos – Reduced water tariff (70% off) for vulnerable groups (2026-2029)
DEYA Thasos charges water and sewerage at 70% off the category A prices for families with 3 or more children, kidney patients, needy people and people with a disability above 67%, for one supply of the main home they own.
Municipality of Iasmos(1)
Iasmos: cleaning-lighting fee exemption or cut for disabled people, large, three-child and single-parent families
The Municipality of Iasmos exempts from the cleaning and lighting fees people and families with a disability of 67% or more and large and three-child families (fully or by 50% depending on income), and halves the fees of single-parent families, within income and property limits.
Municipality of Kavala(1)
Kavala water utility (DEYAK): 20%-90% social water tariff for the needy, people with disabilities, large families, the unemployed, three-child and single-parent families
The Kavala water utility discounts the water of the main home: 90% for the needy, 50% for disability above 80%, large families and the unemployed, 40% for three-child families, 30% for single-parent families and 20% for disability above 67%, with income limits of €12,000 or €24,000.
Body: ΔΕΥΑ Καβάλας — απόφαση ΔΣ 202/2025 (Διαύγεια)
Municipality of Nestos(1)
DEYA Nestos – 50% off water for families with 3+ dependent children and disability above 67%
DEYA Nestos gives 50% off total water consumption, for one meter, to families with three or more dependent children and to people with a permanent disability above 67%.
Body: ΔΕΥΑ Νέστου — απόφαση ΔΣ 121/2026 (Διαύγεια)
Municipality of Xanthi(1)
DEYA Xanthi – Social water tariff for vulnerable groups
DEYA Xanthi gives a 50% discount or a full exemption on the water charge of the main home to large and three-child families, needy people and Minimum Income recipients, single-parent families and people with a disability, with income limits per group.
Body: ΔΕΥΑ Ξάνθης — απόφαση ΔΣ 149/2026 (Διαύγεια)
Municipality of Orestiada(1)
Social Tutoring Voucher, Municipality of Orestiada
A voucher that will cover tuition at partner secondary-education tutoring centres and foreign-language schools for pupils from financially vulnerable families in the Municipality of Orestiada. The programme is funded, but the call for applications has not been announced yet.
Upcoming
Municipality of Samothrace(1)
Reduced VAT Aegean Islands
A 30% reduction in VAT rates on the islands specified in article 26 of the VAT Code.
Body: ΑΑΔΕ — Ε.2113/2025 για τους μειωμένους συντελεστές ΦΠΑ στα νησιά
Municipality of Topeiros(1)
Topeiros: 10% to 20% off water for people with disabilities, large, three-child and single-parent families
For 2026 the Municipality of Topeiros cuts home drinking-water charges by 20% for a disability of 80% or more, 10% for 67-80%, 20% for large and single-parent families and 15% for three-child families, within an income limit.
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