When it comes to your children's future, you always want the best. Often, however, you're faced with the harsh reality that, while money doesn't bring happiness, it can make a huge difference when you're faced with important decisions, such as your educational path.
For this reason, more and more companies are choosing to provide their employees with corporate welfare benefits, which can partially or fully reimburse families for educational expenses—provided they can be proven. For example, a company can reimburse 50% of invoices submitted by its employees, but only if they fall within certain parameters.
But what do you do when you don't have access to corporate welfare?
The Piedmont Region offers its students the opportunity to request a school voucher, a virtual voucher to cover expenses related to the right to education.
The school voucher is recognized by the Region based on the application submitted by a family member or by the student himself – if he is an adult.
There are two types of vouchers, which cannot be combined. When applying, you must choose which voucher you wish to request:
- "Enrollment and Attendance" voucher (A), which can be used to pay enrollment and attendance fees for private schools only;
- "Textbooks, teaching materials, and technological equipment required for instruction, supplementary activities provided for in the curriculum, and transportation" voucher (B).
Students attending private schools can apply for the "Enrollment" voucher (A) OR the "Textbooks" voucher (B), although, as mentioned, they can apply for only one of the two vouchers. Vouchers cannot be converted into any other type of voucher (for example, for groceries), nor can they be used for purchases other than those detailed above, or for purposes other than the right to education.
But how do you apply?
Every year, between May and June, a call for applications is published detailing the requirements and procedures by which a parent, guardian, and adult students (provided they are under 22 and have not yet obtained a secondary school qualification) can submit an application based on the ISEE of the student's family unit.
If you think you won't qualify, you'll be surprised to learn that many families who meet the criteria are actually able to obtain compensation that can cover almost all of our annual tuition costs. For this reason, we encourage you to stay up to date and read the notices we always send to our clients when the call for applications is published.
Finally, below are the related links for more information on the subject:
