Financial Support Program for People with Congenital Hemolytic Anemia or Congenital Hemorrhagic Diathesis, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

1. The programme covers the following people, subject to assessment by the competent health committee:

a. Thalassaemia, Mediterranean anaemia, haemoglobinopathy, sickle-cell disease, homozygous sickle-cell disease or sickle-cell thalassaemia, with a disability rate of at least 67%.

b. Haemophilia A or B, or congenital bleeding disorders, with a disability rate of at least 50%.

c. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), with a disability rate of at least 50%.

d. Primary antibody immunodeficiency requiring immunoglobulin infusions, with a disability rate of at least 50%.

2. Legal framework

• Joint Ministerial Decision G4/F167/2073/13-8-82 (Government Gazette B’ 640/1982) approving the financial support programme for people with thalassaemia and related conditions, as amended and in force, including Government Gazette B’ 50/1983.
• Joint Ministerial Decision P4g/F222/F225/oik.4711/10-11-94 (Government Gazette B’ 872/25-11-94) including people with AIDS in the thalassaemia programme.
• Joint Ministerial Decision P3a/F18/G.P.oik.63731/08 (Government Gazette B’ 931/21-5-08), setting welfare benefit amounts through 2011.
• Ministerial Decision P3a/2011 (P3a/F.167/G.P.oik.19338, Government Gazette B’ 430/2011).
• Ministerial Decision D29/2013 (D29a/F.32/G.P.oik.10807/530, Government Gazette B’ 1271/2013).
• Ministerial Decision P3a/2009 (P3a/G.167/G.P.oik.70548, Government Gazette B’ 1066/2009).
• Joint Ministerial Decision P3a/G.P.oik.49361/1253 (Government Gazette B’ 3483/24-12-2014).

3. Conditions:

a. They must not receive any other financial support from a domestic or foreign source because of their condition.

If they receive support for this reason, they must choose one of the two benefits. For example, a person receiving a benefit from another country is not entitled to the corresponding benefit from Greece. A pension from an insurance body for this condition is not considered financial support.

b. They must not be outside Greece for more than six months.

Receiving a pension from a domestic or foreign insurance body is not a bar to eligibility.

ELIGIBLE CATEGORIES

1. Greek citizens.
2. Citizens of European Union (EU) Member States.
3. Citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA).
4. Citizens of countries covered by the European Convention ratified by Legislative Decree 4017/1959 (Government Gazette A’ 246/1959).
5. Recognised refugees permanently residing in Greece whose status is governed by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Legislative Decree 3989/1959, Government Gazette A’ 201), as amended by the 1967 New York Protocol (Emergency Law 389/1968, Government Gazette A’ 125).These applicants must submit a recognised refugee identity card.
6. Third-country nationals who are family members of a Greek or EU citizen. For this purpose, family members of EU citizens are their spouse and children (the immediate family). These applicants must submit a valid residence permit as a family member of a Greek or EU citizen.
7. Third-country nationals who are beneficiaries of international protection. They must submit aninternational protection beneficiary identity card.
8. Third-country nationals holding residence status for humanitarian reasons under Presidential Decree 114/2010, and NOT under Law 4251/2014. They must submit a residence permit for humanitarian reasons.