Valid until March 31 emergency financial assistance from 200 to 300 euros up to 1,112,000 pensioners, which are divided into seven categories. The total costs are estimated at 280 million euros, while the assistance will be paid automatically, without a request from the outside retiredmoreover, the amount is a one-time, tax-free and non-disposable amount.

Specializing in emergency financial support for retirees, Secretary of Labor Kostis Hatzidakis stated that it was an emergency financial aid for retirees who have personal differences and who have received no or partial benefit from recently granted increases. The Labor Minister said that, with the exception of an emergency aid of 250 euros for Christmas, the other three increases are permanent, responding to opposition criticism that the government is acting opportunistically through the distribution of benefits.

In particular, about 1,112,000 pensioners are recipients of the emergency benefit. The amount is scalable and ranges from 200 to 300 euros. The amount of assistance depends on three criteria: partial or no increase due to personal differences, the amount of pension they receive, and any other assistance they received in the previous period.

Based on the above criteria, pensioners they are divided into 5 categories. The first 4 categories include pensioners who did not receive a 7.75% bonus at all, and the fifth category includes those who received a bonus below 7.75%.

The first category includes those pensioners who have not received any of the allowances mentioned above. This is about 120,000 pensioners (about 5% of the total) with a personal difference and with the amount of basic pensions in the range of 800-1000 euros per month. These pensioners will receive emergency assistance in the amount of 300 euros.

The second category includes those pensioners who have personal differences and the only assistance they received in the previous period was an extraordinary payment of 250 euros at Christmas. These are 370 thousand low-income pensioners with pensions up to 800 euros per month. And these pensioners will receive extraordinary assistance in the amount of 300 euros.

The third category includes those pensioners whose basic pension is between 1,000 and 1,100 euros per month, they obviously have a personal difference and received only a small increase from the abolition of the special solidarity contribution, on average 36 euros per year. About 70,000 pensioners will also receive emergency assistance of 300 euros.

Assistance in the amount of 200 to 300 euros will be paid automatically, without the request of the pensioner.

Adding up the many above categories, it turns out that 560,000 pensioners with basic pensions up to 1,100 euros will receive a maximum amount of 300 euros.

The fourth category includes those pensioners whose basic pension is from 1100 to 1600 euros per month, there is a personal difference and only benefited from the abolition of the special solidarity contribution on average 111 euros per year. There are 300 thousand pensioners and they will receive 250 euros.

The fifth category includes about 94,000 pensioners with a basic pension of up to 1,100 euros per month, whose pension has increased to 3.49%. They will receive an emergency allowance of 250 euros.

Thus, a total of 394,000 pensioners will receive the amount of 250 euros.

The sixth category includes 33,000 pensioners with basic pensions from 1,101 to 1,600 euros, who received a pension increase of up to 3.49%. They will receive assistance in the amount of 200 euros.

Finally, there are another 125,000 pensioners in the seventh category, whose pension amount reaches 1,100 euros, and their pensions have increased from 3.5% to 6.99%. They will receive assistance in the amount of 200 euros.

Thus, the number of pensioners who will receive the amount of 200 euros is 158,000 people.