Two-speed pensioners in Greece with low earnings, large ages and strong inequalities now – Newsbeast play The average main pension is EUR 865, while the average auxiliary pension is only EUR 196

Taxpaying pensions: 43% of payments in Greece are now covered by the budget – Newsbeast play In 2025 only 57% of pension expenditure is covered by employee and employer contributions Source

# Record of retirement claims in the first quarter of 2026

A total of 58,213 new retirement applications were filed in January–March 2026, according to e-EFKA data, scoring a record from 2017. Professor Alexis Mitropoulos, President of the Union for the Protection of Labour and the Social State, points to an increase of 10,172 applications compared to 2025. The main factors of the output are fear of increasing age limits from 1-1-2027 through «Prosecution clause», changes in the acquisition of fictitious time and the calculation of a pension based on the whole working life.

The temporary pension is intended to be abolished, initially for pensioners in the public sector, as the periods for awarding the final pension have improved considerably. The digitisation of the stamps has shortened procedures, with 8 out of 10 decisions in the public domain being issued in less than two months. e-EFKA aims to issue main pensions within one month after the completion of the digitisation of the old stamps by December 2026. Currently, civil servants receive as a temporary pension 50% of their salaries under the 2011 payroll.