Many students lost their part-time jobs in the Corona crisis. Minister Anja Karliczek is now announcing non-repayable grants. Who are they for?
- Many part-time jobs were lost in the Corona crisis.
- This particularly affects students who have financed their studies with it.
- Now there should be financial aid for students in need, as Minister Anja Karliczek announced.
Corona emergency aid for students starts - up to 500 euros depending on the account balance
Update from June 16, 2020: Students who are demonstrably in need due to corona should in future be able to apply for federal corona grants on the Internet. As of Tuesday (June 16) at 12 p.m., applications should be possible via the portal ueberbrueckungshilfe-studierende.de, as the General Secretary of the German Student Union Achim Meyer auf der Heyde said according to an AFP report on Monday. The grants of up to 500 euros a month may continue to be applied for online and do not have to be repaid, as reported among other BR online. According to the guidelines of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the amount of the grant is based on theThe student's account balance at the time the application is made and staggered, it says there: "If the account balance is less than 100 euros, there is a maximum rate of 500 euros, if the account balance is less than 500 euros there is still 100 euros from the state," writes BR Concrete online. Applications are therefore only possible for the months of June, July and August , must be made separately for each calendar month and can only be made for the current month.
According to the report, the prerequisites for a successful application include enrollment for the summer semester 2020 , a domestic bank account and documentation of all account statements since February or March, depending on the date of receipt of the last salary.
Corona grants for students in need - up to EUR 500 per month
Article from June 15, 2020: Students who are in financial difficulties due to the Corona crisis * can apply for federal corona grants on the Internet from Tuesday (June 16). The grants of up to 500 euros per month should be able to be applied for online and would not have to be repaid , Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek (CDU) told AFP on Monday. The Augsburger Allgemeine had previously reported about it.
According to the AFP, the minister also said that the applications would then be processed by the student or student services department responsible on site. Students from home and abroad are entitled to the help, regardless of age and number of semesters. Anyone who is in a proven, pandemic-related emergency situation is entitled to the new bridging aid. First of all, help could be requested for June, July and August .
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Corona grants for students in need - decisive account balance
As of Tuesday at 12 noon, applications should be possible via the portal ueberbrueckungshilfe-studierende.de, as the General Secretary of the German Student Union Achim Meyer said on the Heyde AFP. "We now have the application tool, but we still need a few days to develop the processing tool," said the DSW general secretary, according to the AFP report of June 15. It should be possible to process applications from June 25th. "Then of course we hope to be able to pay out in June as well."
The criteria for bridging help are the account balance and whether the students have lost their jobs or their parents can no longer support them due to a pandemic, said the DSW general secretary AFP. To prevent fraud, the account balance has been checked since the last revenue.
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Many part-time jobs for students have disappeared in the corona crisis
With an account balance of 500 euros or more, there is no entitlement to the subsidy, below which it will be calculated in stages. For example, if you still have 200 euros in your account, you can receive 300 euros in bridging help for the month of the application, the AFP news agency also reported.
According to a survey by the Deutsches Studierendenwerk, before the spread of the Corona virus, around two thirds of the students had a part-time job to finance their studies, as Stern.de also reports. However, many of these jobs, for example in the catering trade, have now disappeared.
Sources: augsburger-allgemeine.de, AFP, Stern.de
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