Pending supplementary pension advances

Around 40,000 pensioners will receive an advance payment of €100 by March 15 for their supplementary pension, and even retroactively for as long as it has elapsed since the issue of the main pension.

Speaking to Skai TV on Tuesday, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said the advance payment will be granted without requiring any action on the part of the beneficiary and will be equal to €100 for each month's delay in the issuance of the supplementary pension.

The advance payment is set at €50 for disability supplementary pensions and for survivors' supplementary pensions (following the death of a spouse).

In other words, if a qualifying person waits a year to receive a supplementary old-age pension, they will receive a lump sum of €1,200 (€100 over 12 months of waiting) by mid-March, if they wait two years, €2,400, and so on.

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