general accounting office

The dividend of the Bank of Greece and the excessive revenues of the Public Investments Program more than doubled the primary budget surplus in the first couple of months of the year, to 2.75 billion euros against an anticipated 1.3 billion, officials data showed on Monday.

Thousands of retirees, upon the recommendation of their lawyers and some media, have been queuing up at branches of the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) and the auxiliary social security fund (ETEAEP), as well as the State General Accounting Office, to apply for the payment of cash amounts that have been wrongly withheld from their pensions.

State debts continued to pile up in June, as another net 67 million euros was added to the 5.067 billion euros run up over the first five months of the year, for a total of 5.134 billion added to the huge mountain of state arrears this year, according to data published on Wednesday by the State General Accounting Office.

The recent hikes in indirect taxes have not fetched the desired results, leading instead to a 247-million-euro shortfall in state revenues, according to figures issued on Wednesday by the State General Accounting Office.

Lackluster budget revenues have led to a reduction of the primary surplus in the first quarter of the year, according to provisional figures released on Tuesday by the State General Accounting Office.