#benefits

More families will become eligible for the child benefit after planned changes to means-testing, the deputy minister for social welfare said on Tuesday. Hailing the tabling of the relevant bill ...

Applications for key social insurance benefits are being processed up to 70 per cent faster following the rollout of new digital services, Deputy Research Minister Nicodimos Damianou said on Tuesday. The ...

Welfare benefit increases will be paid retroactively to beneficiaries in the last quarter of 2026, without any action needed on their behalf, the deputy welfare ministry announced on Wednesday. The increases ...

A woman who over the period of two years received social benefits has reportedly been told to pay back a sum of over €11,000 in government support. According to Phileleftheros, the ...

The first notification of the new bill increasing benefits for people with disabilities is a “particularly important development”, the confederation of organisations for the disabled (Kysoa) said on Friday. “After ...

The government on Wednesday announced the launch of a new online platform through which people are able to discover state benefits and allowances for which they may be eligible. The ...

At €277 per person, Cyprus is amongst the three countries with the lowest spending on family benefits within the EU, data published by the EU’s statistical service Eurostat on Monday ...

Prisoners of the 1974 war are faced with a slew of injustices, ranging from getting an €8 stipend every month, while others who receive a government subsidy may not have been prisoners ...

Child allowance is increased by 5 per cent and half the allowance will still be given for children of large families who are now university students. With the government proposals now ...

The modernising and upgrading of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) for vulnerable groups is based on three pillars tackling inefficiency, misappropriation of funds, and empowerment of applicants, Government Spokesman Konstantinos ...

More complaints are being filed to the ombudswoman’s office over benefits it emerged on Thursday, as ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides handed over the annual reports for 2021 and 2022 to President Nikos ...

In 1988 a law was approved that set out the benefits the president of the republic and president of the House of Representatives would enjoy when they retire. Apart from a ...

Thousands of low-income pensioners struggling to make ends meet over the Christmas period will from January 1, 2023 be able to apply for a new support scheme, said the Union of Cypriot ...

During the state budget debate, the Green Party, once again, tried to block the spending item for former presidents of the republic and former presidents of the legislature, that cover ...

The government will be giving a Christmas gift to people in need with a grant of over €17 million, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. Following a meeting, Deputy Social Welfare Minister ...

All pensions and benefits that fall under the responsibility of the labour ministry and social insurance will be paid before Christmas. A ministry announcement on Monday clarified that special pensions ...

The state is to tighten its purse strings and get tougher on how benefits are handed out to migrants and asylum seekers, but those seeking protection are set for some ...

Paphos police arrested three people on Tuesday who allegedly assaulted employees at the social welfare office and one officer after complaining over delayed payment of benefits. The incident occurred around 11.30...

The government has recently improved maternity benefits, but will this encourage couples to have more children? New government measures to fight falling birth rates and “safeguard Hellenism” have been dismissed ...

A fully automated system to come online perhaps by the end of the year will address the problem of the long delays in the processing and disbursement of benefits, Labour ...

Twenty outgoing MPs will share an approximate €3m one-off tax-free payment, it emerged on Friday. Former MPs who served one term will receive a one-off payment of €75,728 and are entitled ...