The Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, Fernando Alexandre
Failure to “based on the 2025 inflation rate,” announced the Minister of Education.
The government will defrost, from the school year 2026/2027, the value of the bribes of the degree, which has not changed since 2020 and will pass 697 for 710 eurosannounced the Minister of Education this Tuesday.
“The government will also include in the State Budget Bill to 2026 to update the degree bribes Based on the 2025 inflation rate”Announced Fernando Alexandre.
The minister spoke at the end of a presentation session of the final report of the Evaluation Study of the Social Action System in Higher Education, which took place at the Thalia Theater in Lisbon.
The minister had already been confronted this year with a possible increase in tuition fees, but without giving a clear answer. To defrost is simply to update again. We don’t talk about increasedbut to defrost, ”the minister, quoted by the observer in March.
Return of the bribes at the end of the month
O salary attributed to young workers as a form of return of tuition fees, relating to the requests submitted in the year 2024, will be paid At the end of the second week of Septemberreleased the Tax and Customs Authority (AT) this Monday.
“It is expected to be paid at the end of the second week of September, pursuant to article 3 of Decree-Law No. 134/2023, of December 28, and in Article 4 of Ordinance 67-A/2024, of 22 February, the salary prize relating to requests submitted in 2024, provided that the respective requirements are met”, in a note published on the AT.
In August, the public had reported that the payment of the salary prize, which It should have been paid until the end of July,adding that the form for new candidates for support had not yet been opened.
On the government page for the salary prize, a message is published where it states: “At this moment, new requests are not accepted for the Qualifications Salary Award. The deadline for submitting orders in 2025 has not yet been announced,” said Zap this Tuesday.
This incentive was created by the government of António Costa in 2023 to allow young workers, Until the year they are 35 years oldmay ask the State to return the bribes as recognition of the conclusion of the degree or the master’s degree.
The prize is paid every year by the Tax and Customs Authority (until July 30 of each year), during the number of years equivalent to the study cycle that led to the attribution of the academic degree.
In the case of a degree, the amount paid is 697 euros and, in the master’s degree, of 1,500 euros (in an integrated master’s degree, the years corresponding to the degree entitled to 697 euros and those for the master’s degree to the same 1,500 euros).
