• 03/11/2023

Heating allowance, beneficiaries and criteria, applications until 8.12.2023!

A heating allowance is granted to individuals who are single or married or in a widowed state or to persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement or who are separated or divorced, who use internal combustion heating oil or lighting oil (blue kerosene) or natural gas or liquid gas for their heating or firewood or biomass (pellets) or thermal energy through district heating and meet the criteria as described below. Especially, for married people or persons who have entered into a cohabitation agreement, the beneficiary is the person liable to submit the income tax return according to article 67 of Law 4172/2013 or one of the two in case of submitting a separate return.

Natural persons designated as beneficiaries of the heating allowance are entitled to a heating allowance if they meet the following criteria:
a. Income
b. Real estate

For the granting of the heating allowance, the data of the municipalities and settlements of the Greek Territory are used, based on the calculation of degree days, which are an indicator of the severity of the climate of an area and are used to calculate the heating loads of a building and the required energy consumption for the heating it.
Τhe allowance is granted to natural persons after a relevant application submitted until December 8, 2023. Interested parties apply through an application on myAADE