Child and single-parent family allowances will be increased again this year due to the increase resulting from the payment of ATA.
Speaking to Protoselidos, the head of the Child Benefit Section of the Deputy Ministry of Welfare, Giorgos Tsiapas, said, "Those who receive monthly single parent allowance and monthly child allowance have already been paid yesterday. They are single-parent families, the first category that have an annual income below 39 thousand euros. The income taken into account is the income of 2021. In 2022 we will have it available in April when their applications will be reviewed and paid with the data we will have available for the 2023 applications and payment will begin since May".
He went on to say, "those single parents who do not now receive benefit, that is the category that had an annual income of 39-49 thousand euros, will receive it from May as long as they still meet the criteria and will retroactively receive the months they have not received the benefit, that is, from January to May.
New applicants should apply online only, the platform is now closed but an announcement will be made when it will be available to submit their applications.”
He pointed out, "if someone was receiving child benefit and is now divorced for some reason they do not need to apply, they fill in the change of information form to change their marital status, attach the parenting order and the divorce and we make the necessary changes ».
Among other things he said, "once the child turns 18 the allowance stops however if they are still in secondary education then they will have to provide two forms one is a certificate that they are still attending school and the second is the authorization form to give us the right to obtain from the banking institutions the deposits of the now adult child in order to examine the application and continue to receive child benefit. For boys it is until they turn 21 years old if they are still in secondary education or in the army and for girls it is until they are 20 years old."
He explained that families with one or two children receive the child benefit in one installment for the whole year and will receive it in May or before Easter.