DYPA Maternity Special Allowance

Required Documents

Usually the details gov.gr already holds about you are enough.

Step by step

1. 1

   Check if you qualify

   The benefit is for mothers insured with e-EFKA — private-sector employees, freelancers, self-employed women and farmers — and starts right after maternity leave ends (for employees, or after the leave equivalent to reduced hours or annual leave, if you take those first). You do not need to be registered as unemployed with DYPA. Public-sector staff receive the special leave from their own employer.

2. 2

   Gather the required documents

   Employees need an Employer Statement for the special leave (and so does the father, if you transfer months to him). Your maternity-allowance and contribution-status data are pulled automatically from e-EFKA; a copy of the maternity-allowance decision is needed only if that fails or if you are insured with a fund outside e-EFKA. Adoptive mothers attach a document proving the date the child joined the family, e.g. a certificate of placement with an adoptive family or an adoption court ruling.

3. 3

   Apply in time

   The application is submitted online only, with your TaxisNet credentials, at parentalbenefits.dypa.gov.gr. Employees: within 60 days of the start of the special leave. Freelancers, self-employed women and farmers: within 2 months of the day after the maternity allowance is credited (adoptive mothers: from the child joining the family or the adoption ruling becoming final); the benefit then starts on the 1st of the month after you apply.

   Open the page
4. 4

   What happens after you apply

   DYPA checks your details and issues a decision, which you can see in your online account or collect from the DYPA office. The benefit is paid monthly for up to 9 months. For employees it equals the minimum wage in force, plus holiday bonuses and leave allowance; half of that if, in the six months before your pregnancy leave, you worked up to 4 hours a day or up to 13 days a month on average. For non-employees it equals the minimum wage. For employees it stops if the employment ends (unless a new job follows straight away) or if you work for the employer that granted the leave.

5. 5

   Transferring months to the father

   Up to 7 of the 9 months can be transferred to the father, whether he is a private-sector employee or a freelancer, self-employed or a farmer, provided the mother herself is eligible. Employed mothers can transfer months without first taking any part themselves, and the parents can alternate; non-employed mothers must first take at least the first 2 months themselves. The father also applies on the same platform.

Good to know

• Sign in to gov.gr with your TAXISnet codes. You sign in ONLY through the official government page. Never enter your codes anywhere else.
• Fill in and submit the application. Enter your details, upload anything requested and submit. Keep the protocol number.
• Track your application. Progress and the final decision appear in your account on the authority / gov.gr.