WITH April 1, 2026 new regime comes into force unemployment benefitswhich is already in the pilot phase.
The amount of financial support will be determined depending on previous salary And years of insurance experience recipient, starting with a higher amount initially and gradually decreasing as the months pass, as noted in today’s newspaper publication “Απογευματινή της Κυριακής”.
The maximum duration of benefit payment will reach up to 24 months.
The new system provides powerful incentives to a faster return to work: those who rejects three job offers from Employment assistance centers, will lose the right to receive benefits.
At the same time, additional payments are built into the scheme, such as Christmas bonus And Easter bonusand also allowances for children and for single parent families.
With the introduction of a new legal framework years of work And paid insurance premiums are directly related to the amount of financial support, which makes the model more fair, insurance and compensation And more adapted to real needs recipients.
According to the first data, about 12,500 unemployed have already received support within the pilot phase, and 25% of them quickly returned to the labor market.
Ministry of Labor emphasizes that the new manual is intended to be easy to use, more equitable in distribution And meeting the requirements of the modern labor marketreplacing the old one unified systemwhich did not take into account differences in wages and years of work experience.
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