This chapter will discuss the current framework of national state pension policies in Greece and highlight its impact on the development of a generational interdependencies agenda following the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007, which re-ignited an overall discussion about public policies against social risks and needs. The struggle to combat poverty and social exclusion has long been a key part of the European Union‘s (EU) policies, and remains a policy priority across all European countries. The overriding goal of EU policy in this area is to reduce substantially the number of people at-riskof-poverty or social exclusion, thereby creating a more inclusive society.In Greece, state or statutory pensions play a rather important redistributive role over the life-cycle, covering people against poverty and social exclusion. They follow the traditional global approach introduced by the ILO Convention No. 102/1951 concerning Minimum Standards of Social Security (the basic international text for defining and enumerating social security risks and benefits), which codifies a “classic” typology of social risks (medical care, sickness, unemployment, old-age, employment injuries, maintenance of children, maternity, invalidity, loss of support suffered by the widow or child as the result of the death of the breadwinner).