Grants and allowances

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Art. 4 Types of grant awarded to pupils:

a) merit grant;

b) social grant.

Art. 5 Who may receive a school grant:

- Pupils attending day courses in compulsory state secondary education may receive, as the case may be, any of the grants listed above.

- Pupils enrolled in day courses in compulsory state primary education may receive social grants.

Art. 6 Amount of the school grants

(1) For the 2026–2027 school year the amounts are:

a) merit grant — 450 lei/month;

b) social grant — 300 lei/month.

Award of the social grants

Art. 13 The social grant supports pupils from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds, from vulnerable groups or with special medical situations, so that they can take part in school activities, and in order to prevent pupils from dropping out of school.

Art. 14 Conditions

- The social grant is awarded on application, according to the pupil's material, social or medical situation. Pupils who receive a social grant are entitled to confidentiality over their identity, their personal data and any information about the difficulty they are in.

- The social grant is awarded on the further condition that the pupil passed every subject and obtained a mark of 10 for conduct, or the qualification "very good" for conduct, at the end of the previous school year.

Art. 15 The social grant is awarded to pupils in state pre-university education enrolled in day courses, including those taught at home or attending the "Hospital School", who are in at least one of the following situations:

a) pupils from families whose average net taxable income per family member over the 12 months before the application is less than 50% of the net minimum wage (1,349.5 lei); the net minimum wage in force on the date the application is filed is the one taken into account;

b) pupils with one or both parents deceased, and pupils placed under a special protection measure, namely foster care or emergency foster care, regardless of the average net taxable income per family member;

c) pupils with impairments or functional limitations caused by illnesses, disorders or conditions of the body's structures and functions, classified according to the criteria in annex no. 1 to order no. 1,306/1,883/2016 of the minister of health and the minister of labour, family, social protection and the elderly, approving the biopsychosocial criteria for classifying children with disabilities in a degree of disability and the ways of applying them, as subsequently amended, and grouped by type under the same act, regardless of the average net taxable income per family member;

d) pupils with oncological and/or chronic conditions who are taught for more than 4 weeks in the "Hospital School" or at home, regardless of the average net taxable income per family member;

e) pupils returning from the "Hospital School" to the school where they were previously enrolled, regardless of the average net taxable income per family member;

f) pupils from families receiving the minimum inclusion income under law no. 196/2016 on the minimum inclusion income, as subsequently amended, on the basis of the decision establishing the family's right to inclusion aid.

Art. 16 To obtain a social grant, the parents or legal representatives of pupils who are minors file with the school secretariat an application together with the papers proving the right to the grant, within the first 25 calendar days from the start of the school year. The exception is the social grant for pupils from families receiving the minimum net inclusion income, which is awarded after the Agency for Payments and Social Inspection sends the School Inspectorate the list of pupils enrolled in day courses whose families received inclusion aid in the month before the list is reported.

Art. 17 A pupil may receive only one social grant from the budget of the Ministry of Education and Research, even if they meet several of the criteria set out above.

Art. 18 The documents to be filed by the parents or legal representatives within 25 calendar days from the start of the school year, for the social grants under Art. 15 a) (pupils from families whose average net taxable income per family member over the last 12 months is less than 50% of the net minimum wage in force on the date of the application), are:

a) the application of the parent or legal representative;

b) a declaration on their own responsibility of the net income obtained by the members of the family over the 12 months before the application, and the consent to the processing of personal data needed to check that the conditions for the grant are met;

c) documents proving the composition of the family as defined in these regulations: birth certificates for children under 14, identity papers for persons over 14, papers concerning marital status at the time of the application, a declaration on their own responsibility by both parents, unmarried, that they live together, the divorce certificate and the notarial agreement concluded during a divorce involving children who are minors, a court decision establishing the residence of the child or children with one of the parents, a death certificate, a court decision to keep a parent in custody, or a social investigation report where a parent is missing, as the case may be.

Art. 19 Social grants on medical grounds are awarded on the basis of the certificate classifying a degree of disability or of the certificate issued by the specialist doctor (form A5), recorded by the doctor of the school surgery or, where there is no school doctor, by the family doctor.

Art. 20 The documents to be filed by the parents or legal representatives within 25 calendar days from the start of the school year, for the social grants under Art. 15 b) (pupils with one or both parents deceased and pupils placed under a special protection measure, namely foster care or emergency foster care, regardless of the average net taxable income per family member), are:

a) the application of the parent or legal representative;

b) the consent to the processing of personal data needed to check that the conditions for the grant are met;

c) the documents proving the composition of the family, the same as those listed under Art. 18 c) above.

Art. 21 Social grants for pupils from families receiving the minimum net inclusion income are awarded after the Agency for Payments and Social Inspection sends the School Inspectorate the list of pupils enrolled in day courses whose families received inclusion aid in the month before the list is reported.

Art. 22 Checking the declared income:

- All net income obtained by the members of the family is taken into account when establishing the average monthly net income per family member;

- Net income means all the sums received or obtained by each member of the family, under law no. 227/2015 on the Fiscal Code, as subsequently amended;

- The papers concerning the income declared by the parents or legal representatives of pupils who are minors are checked by one or more persons appointed by the school management;

- Where the school staff suspect that the conditions for the social grant are not met, the headmistress notifies the local public administration and asks for a social investigation to be carried out;

- The school staff do not carry out social investigations for the award of social grants;

- The headmistress issues a decision withdrawing the grant where, after receiving the social investigation report, the grants management committee finds that the conditions for the social grant are not met.