OPEKA — Organismos Pronoiakon Epitomaton kai Koinonikis Allilengyis

The Child Benefit (A21) (Επίδομα Παιδιού Α21) is the principal Greek child benefit administered by OPEKA (Οργανισμός Προνοιακών Επιδομάτων και Κοινωνικής Αλληλεγγύης). The procedure is exclusively digital, conducted through the OPEKA online platform, and is the institutional mechanism through which an annual application triggers a fully automated income-tiered eligibility determination and — where approved — six bi-monthly payment instalments across the calendar year.

The procedure is governed principally by Law 4512/2018 Art. 214, Law 4756/2020 Art. 63, Law 4808/2021, and an implementing joint ministerial decision (ΚΥΑ Δ11/οικ. 72936/2021). The applying body is the Directorate of Family Benefits within OPEKA (org unit 58558 in Mitos).

Institutional structure

The competent body is OPEKA — Directorate of Family Benefits. The determination is performed by OPEKA's automated system via software interoperability with:

• ΑΑΔΕ (Independent Authority of Public Revenue) — for income data (E1 tax declarations)
• Civil Registry — for family status certification

No individual officer is named as the routine decision-maker. The determination is system-mediated. In exceptional cases where electronic cross-checking fails, manual review may occur — the source does not clarify whether the authority model then shifts to a human officer.

Normative structure

The procedure has a compact structure — two binding commitment points:

1. An applicant submits the annual application digitally (TAXISnet authentication required). This is not itself a commitment point — it is the trigger.
2. The OPEKA system performs the Annual Eligibility Determination: it assigns the applicant to an income category (A, B, or C), calculates the monthly benefit amount per dependent child, and issues a formal Απόφαση (decision). This is the single binding institutional act.
3. If approved, a bi-monthly payment sequence of six instalments is activated. This is downstream execution, not a separate CP.
4. If rejected or if a prior approval is revoked, the applicant may exercise an Internal Administrative Appeal (ενδικοφανής προσφυγή) within 3 months.

Procedural consequences

Three consequences define the procedure's operative logic:

• Approval results in registry update and payment activation, with benefit amounts depending on income category. Before each instalment, income is re-verified via the latest E1 tax declaration — this can change the benefit amount.
• Rejection produces a formal Απόφαση that is contestable within 3 months.
• Revocation of a prior approval (where granted erroneously) is possible at any time via OPEKA's ex officio capacity. This is modelled as an outcome branch of CP1 rather than a separate CP — a first-pass extraction decision (see EI-375051-01).

Important limitations of this draft

This specification is derived from the Mitos administrative record (ID 375051). The source is medium-high density compared to the Mitos corpus but has several notable gaps:

• The appeal reviewing body within OPEKA is not identified in the source.
• Appeal outcomes and any further court recourse path are not described.
• The bi-monthly income re-verification (which constitutes a recurring binding re-determination before each of the 6 instalments) is not modelled as separate CPs — it is flagged as a CORE GAP pending ICSL recurrence semantics.
• Income-tier benefit amounts (per child per category) require cross-reference to the implementing ΚΥΑ, which is not machine-readable in the Mitos record.