Student allowance 2024: The deadline for submitting applications for the student housing allowance of €1,500 to €2,500 for the academic year 2023-2024 will be open until Wednesday 31 July.
Applications for the student housing allowance are made in the special application. A necessary condition for submitting the application is that the student for whom the allowance is granted must be a Greek citizen or a citizen of another European Union country, hold a valid Academic ID, hold a VAT number and tax resident of Greece. It is clarified that the citizenship concerns only the person of the student and not his parents or guardians.
A. Procedure for submitting the application to the student allowance
The application is submitted by the beneficiary of the allowance, i.e. the person considered to be the student’s burden, in accordance with the provisions of article 11 of Law 4172/2013 (A’ 167). In the case of divorced or estranged spouses, the beneficiary of the allowance is the parent on whom the student is responsible and shows him as a protected member. Exceptionally, the beneficiary will be the student himself if:
b) his parents are foreign residents or
c) is over 25 years old or
d) is liable to submit a tax return and is not considered a dependent member, in accordance with article 11 of Law 4172/2013 (A’ 167).
To log in to the online application, the beneficiary (parent or student) will use the username and password granted by AADE for TAXISnet online services. The entry of passwords constitutes a declaration of consent to the cross-referencing of its elements. The applicant must fill in the following information in the respective fields of the application:
a) the student’s Academic ID number and AMKA,
b) the Tax Registration Number (A.F.M.) of the same, of the other parent (in the case of divorced, deceased or unmarried parents, the corresponding field remains blank) and of the student if the beneficiary is the parent, or only the VAT NUMBER. of himself and his/her spouse in the event that the beneficiary is the student (according to article 2 hereof),
c) the number of the electronic lease contract,
d) his bank account number (IBAN), patronymic, patronymic, DOU, as well as his contact details (telephone, e-mail).
In the case of cohabitation, the following must also be completed:
e) the Academic ID number of the roommate student,
f) the Tax Registry Number (TIN) of the roommate student,
g) A.F.M. of the person, as stated in the cohabiting student’s lease
In the event that, for any reason, the student does not have a valid Academic ID, then he submits an application for the grant of the allowance, following previously requesting and receiving his Academic ID. If the Academic ID has been canceled due to termination of student status (completion of studies, interruption of studies, etc.) then details of the last canceled Academic ID are taken into account and the authorized employee of the Institution certifies when confirming the academic criterion that the student had student status for the academic year 2023-2024.
It is clarified that students-citizens of European Union countries who declare that their parents are foreign residents and do not have AMKA, can submit an application with the number of the European Health Insurance Card (EKAA).
In cases where the beneficiary parent who is liable for a tax return died following the end of the tax year 2023 and his/her student/child belonged to him/her as a protected member, the spouse of the deceased must submit his/her application in due time. He then submits the application and the necessary supporting documents to the competent service of the Foundation and the Foundation, following confirming that the beneficiary belongs to this category, forwards the unique application submission number via e-mail: stegastiko@minedu.gov.gr to D/ Organizational and Academic Development, stating the relevant rationale
B. The amounts for the 2024 student allowance
The relevant circular of the Ministry of Education, Religion and Sports also refers to the amounts of the allowance. Analytically:
The applications are initially evaluated in relation to the data concerning the student for whom the housing allowance application is made and only if these are approved, the additional cohabitation data is evaluated.
In the applications which are approved in terms of the data concerning the student for whom the application for housing allowance is made and either cohabitation data has not been filled in or cohabitation data has not been approved by the competent Service of the Foundation, the amount of 1,500 euros is paid.
The allowance is set at the amount of 2,000 euros exclusively for the beneficiaries studying at HEIs outside the Attica Region or the Thessaloniki Regional Unit.
In the case of approval of all the details of the application by the competent Service of the Foundation, including the details of cohabitation, the amount of 2,000 euros is paid.
Exclusively in the case of a beneficiary who studies at a university outside the Attica Region or the Thessaloniki Regional Unit and lives with another student in the same rented residence, the allowance is set at the amount of 2,500 euros.
Once the verification of the supporting documents is completed and the conditions for granting the allowance are verified by the electronic system and the competent services of the Foundation, in accordance with the above, the printed applications together with the submitted supporting documents are forwarded to the financial department of the Foundation for the issuance of the relevant warrants. The financial service is not responsible for the cross-checking of the data and the results of the electronic checks made by the information systems involved.
In the case of transfer students, the allowance is granted by the Institution to which the student belongs at the time of submission of the application.
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