# Education allowance

- Link: https://euemployment.eu/glossary/education-allowance/
- Published: 2024-02-24T19:10:29+01:00
- Author: Ben

**The ‘Education allowance’ is one of the benefits paid to employees of EU institutions
if their children do not attend a [European School](https://euemployment.eu/glossary/european-school/).**

Parents of children younger than 5 years or older than 5 years but not yet in a 
primary school receive a Pre-school allowance EUR 128,76 per month.

Parents of children older than 5 years and in regular full-time attendance at fee-
charging a) primary school b) secondary school, c) university or a similar educational
institution, are entitled to a single Education allowance of EUR 357.62, which is
doubled in some circumstances to EUR 715.24.

The Education Allowance is adjusted according to the [Correction Coefficient](https://euemployment.eu/glossary/correction-coefficient/).

[Article on the Education Allowance](https://euemployment.eu/european-commission-education-allowance/).