Members Vote to Increase and Index Student Scholarships on Inflation
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On first reading, Members of Parliament adopted a re-evaluation of student scholarships. The text must now be moved to the Senate. Students welcome an essential first step but hope that the scholarship system will be further reformed to include more people in the future.
The MPs have passed a bill to automatically revalue and index student scholarships on inflation, and the bill also provides for a 12-month payment instead of the current 10.
On Thursday 11 June 2026, the National Assembly adopted at first reading a bill to better support scholarship students, who were hit hard by the rise in the cost of living. The bill, carried by the Communist deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Soumya Bourouaha, provides for two main measures: an automatic upgrading of scholarships on social criteria and their payment over 12 months instead of the current ten. Student scholarships: what the deputies vot…
On Thursday 11 June, on first reading, the deputies adopted a bill to increase the amount of student scholarships awarded on the basis of social criteria. The bill is to be examined by the Senate.
Faced with a galloping student precariousness, the National Assembly approved, on Thursday 11 June in the evening, the upgrading of the scholarships on social criteria defended by the Communist deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, Soumya Bourouaha. The text provides for a minimum indexation on inflation and payment over 12 months instead of 10.
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