The Generalitat de Catalunya will maintain the school voucher in the 2026-2027 academic year with an aid of 60 euros per student to buy school supplies. The measure, announced this Tuesday by the Government spokesperson, Sílvia Paneque, plans to reach more than 800,000 primary and secondary students with a total allocation of 50 million euros.
The Government thus retains a subsidy that expanded its coverage in recent years, but does so with the same reduced amount of 60 euros and with a change in distribution. The voucher will no longer arrive by postal mail, but will be activated remotely, after 719,305 students used it in the previous academic year, 91.9% of those entitled to receive it.
Paneque announced that aid will reach more than 800,000 students
After the meeting of the Consell Executiu, Sílvia Paneque presented the continuity of the program and defended its scope at a press conference.
"It can benefit more than 800,000 primary and secondary students" - Sílvia Paneque, spokesperson for the Government
The aid will remain at 60 euros per student and will again be used for the purchase of materials for the start of the school year. The budget set aside for this edition amounts to 50 million euros.
Families will be able to use the voucher to acquire writing supplies, stationery, books, dictionaries, calculators, backpacks, and educational games. The amount will be distributed again in two vouchers of 30 euros each.
The voucher stopped being 100 euros and will now only be distributed digitally
The program started in the 2023-2024 academic year, aimed solely at primary school students, and at that time it was for 100 euros. A year later it was extended to secondary school, but the amount dropped to 60 euros per student.
For the 2026-2027 academic year, the main novelty will be the delivery system. The Generalitat will stop sending vouchers by postal mail and will opt for telematic activation, which the Government frames within a more sustainable digital distribution.
More than 2,000 affiliated shopping centers will accept the vouchers, which can be redeemed until the end of November. In the last edition, 719,305 students ended up using the aid, a figure equivalent to 91.9% of the total beneficiaries expected.
The Government maintains the school voucher with the aim of helping families with the expense of the start of the school year and to compensate for the increase in the cost of living. In the next edition, each student will receive two vouchers of 30 euros to use on school supplies.