Financial Assistance for Families with Three or More Children
This year too, LAE/OPEKA is implementing the programme of cash grants to 2,300 mothers of three children and 600 mothers of four or more children, or single-parent fathers of three children and of four or more children respectively, who are beneficiaries of Agricultural Estate benefits.
Applications are submitted online by the mother, or single-parent father, who is a direct beneficiary of LAE/OPEKA benefits, through the dedicated OPEKA application available at https://www.idika.gr/lae-miteres/, from Monday 15 June 2026 at 3:00 p.m. to Wednesday 22 July 2026 at 11:59 p.m.
The beneficiaries of the benefit are 2,300 mothers of three children and 600 mothers of four or more children, or single-parent fathers of three children and of four or more children respectively, who are direct LAE/OPEKA beneficiaries, provided that they are:
- Insured with e-EFKA (OGA) and up to date with their contributions on 31/12/2025 – farm workers in particular must have completed at least 150 days of work in the previous twelve months, or
- Pensioners of e-EFKA (OGA), or
- Pensioners of the Uninsured Elderly Account under Article 1 of Law 1296/1982 (Government Gazette A’ 128), as in force, or
- Employees and/or retired former employees of OPEKA, provided that they pay the prescribed contributions, or
- Employees of e-EFKA who were transferred from OGA and were registered in the LAE Register of Beneficiaries, provided that they pay the prescribed contributions and remain employees of e-EFKA,
and in addition have three or more children who are also beneficiaries of LAE/OPEKA benefits, with active insurance cover derived from their directly entitled parent.
The children taken into account for the award of the benefit must be unmarried and unemployed and must not be older than eighteen (18), or nineteen (19) if they are still attending secondary education, or twenty-four (24) if they are studying at a Higher Education Institution in Greece or abroad, or attending the “Post-secondary year – Apprenticeship Class” of Vocational Upper Secondary Schools (EPA.L.) or a SAEK (Vocational Training Institutes (IEK)), or be children with a disability of fifty per cent (50%) or more.
The date on which the age of 18, 19 and 24 is reached is taken to be 31 December 2026, regardless of the month of birth.
For the purposes of the programme, a single parent is defined as the father who, either de facto or following an assignment by court decision, notarial deed or mediation record in accordance with the legislation in force, exclusively exercises temporary or permanent custody of the children taken into account, as specified in the following subparagraph, being unmarried, widowed, divorced or separated, or because the other parent is detained in a correctional facility.
