Extended accommodation support for displaced students without a grant
The Council of Ministers approved today a housing support for displaced higher education students without a scholarship, corresponding to 50% of the value of the supplement attributed to scholarship holders.
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"The Council of Ministers has taken measures that reinforce the capacity of student accommodation (...) and the extension of support to students who require and need student accommodation", announced the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro.
In the same press conference, at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting, in Braga, the Minister of Youth and Modernization, Margarida Balseiro Lopes, specified that the support corresponds to 50% of the accommodation supplement currently attributed to scholarship students.
The measure will cover students who do not have access to a scholarship and whose family's 'per capita' income varies between 836 euros and 1,018 euros per month.
Currently, the value of the accommodation supplement paid to scholarship students who do not obtain a place in public residences varies between 264.24 euros and 456.41 euros, depending on the city.
In addition to this support, the Government will reinforce the supply of beds, making 709 beds available in Youth Hostels and INATEL facilities.
The Minister Margarida Balseiro Lopes also added that the executive is working, in coordination with higher education institutions, to identify beds in entities in the public, private and social sectors that will be paid for by the State.
"This second financing axis for protocols will have a value of around 5.5 million euros", she said.
In relation to higher education, the Council of Ministers also approved the extension of scholarships.
According to the minister, from the income of student-workers, "up to 14 national minimum wages" will be exempt.
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