Greece lowers age threshold for widows’ pension benefit

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The authorities will widen a 300-euro payment to widows arsenic young arsenic 60, lowering the eligibility property from 65, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced Friday.

“We are correcting an injustice affecting widows. Since their lone pension is simply a survivor’s pension, they will person the 300-euro payment starting astatine property 60 alternatively of 65,” Pierrakakis said during a league successful Athens.

“These are chiefly women who are successful a hard position, with constricted entree to the labour market, and the state has a work to stand by them with sensitivity and fairness,” helium added.