Higher education

From 1 Feb. 2025

Students: new help for catering

Publié le 02 décembre 2024 - Mise à jour le 12 février 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Students without a nearby Crous restaurant or an approved restaurant must be able to benefit from a prepaid card during February 2025; it will be paid 40 € each month for scholars and 20 € for non-scholars. This card can be used in grocery stores.

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If you are a student in white area, which means that your school is located more than 20 minutes away on foot or by public transport from a reasonably priced restaurant (restaurant Crous or contracted), you can benefit from a dematerialized prepaid card.

This card is credited:

  • of 40 € each month if you are a fellow ;
  • of €20 per month if you are not a fellow.

This financial assistance is provided by the Center national des oeuvre universitaire et scolaire (Cnous).

In the 2 situations, it is increased by 10 € in the ultra-marine territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Mayotte, Martinique and Reunion).

This card can be used in food shops (grocery store, supermarket, bakery, restaurant, butcher shop...), only for the purchase and consumption of food.

FYI  

A daily expenditure ceiling is set at €20. It is not possible to spend more than this amount in a single day with the prepaid card.

Please note

This financial assistance is paid monthly during the academic year (from September to June, except in the 2024-2025 academic year for which the payment will be made in February 2025). Every year, at 1er In July, the remaining amounts on the prepaid cards will no longer be available for use by students. These sums will be returned to the National Center for Academic and Educational Works.

How do I get help?

The rectorates identify the higher education institutions located in the white zone. These institutions then list their eligible students.

The student does not have to make any steps, he receives an allocation decision and then a message to access his dematerialized card; he will have to download an application on his phone to use it.

The Ministry of Higher Education has communicated the timetable for the implementation of the scheme:

  • 4 February 2025: notification to the students concerned;
  • 6 February: making the card available;
  • 17 February: activation of the card.

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