The travel support awarded to higher education scholarship students who receive supplementary accommodation will increase from 25 to 40 euros per month, a change with retroactive effect to the beginning of 2024;
The change to the regulations for awarding scholarships to higher education students was already provided for in the State Budget for 2024 and was published today in Diário da República.
According to the decree, “displaced scholarship students who are beneficiaries of an accommodation supplement (…) are entitled to travel support, in the months in which they benefit from that supplement, in the amount of 40 euros, with an annual maximum of 400 euros”.
Currently, the travel allowance is set at 25 euros per month, with an annual maximum of 250 euros.
The changes take effect on January 1, 2024 and apply “to all applications already submitted on the date of their entry into force,” adds the order issued by the Minister of Education, Science and Innovation.
The accommodation supplement is paid to displaced scholarship students who do not find a place in public residences and varies between 264.24 euros and 456.41 euros, depending on the city.
From the next academic year, displaced students without a scholarship, whose family’s per capita income varies between 836 euros and 1,018 euros per month, will also receive housing support corresponding to 50% of the value of the supplement awarded to scholarship holders.
