Financial Assistance Schemes for Primary & Secondary Students

Checklist for Submission

Please check the followings before submitting your application for the 2025/26 school year -

• Please submit the completed electronic or paper-based “Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” together with copies of the relevant supporting documents either online or by post using the addressed envelope provided to the Student Finance Office (SFO), on or before 31 May 2025.

• Required supporting documents include:

  1. Copy of the one-way permit / visa / permit to remain in Hong Kong / Hong Kong Birth Certificate of the student-applicant if he / she is not a holder of the Hong Kong Permanent Identity Card such as holding one-way permit / dependent visa / other entry visa or is under 11 years old; and

     Copy of identity documents of the applicant and his / her family members as listed in Part II (excluding student-applicant but including the dependent parent(s) (if applicable)) if they are not holders of the Hong Kong Identity Card.
     

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     Copy of the amended identity documents (excluding Hong Kong Identity Card) (For Continuing Applicant).

     Applicant may be required by the SFO to submit other supporting document(s) for assessment during processing / vetting of application.  In case of any disputes, the decision of the SFO will be final.

  2. (For single-parent families) Copy of supporting documents for separation / divorce or spouse’s Death Certificate. If applicants are unable to provide the supporting documents, please explain in writing the reasons and sign on an explanatory note; if applicant is unable to provide the required supporting documents, the SFO reserves the right to process the application on the basis that the applicant is not treated as a single parent;
     

  3. (If applicable) Copy of documentary proof on supporting the dependent parents;

     Applicant or his / her spouse must continue to support their parent(s) in the 2025/26 school year and the form of support should be similar to that in the year of assessment.  (If the dependent parent(s) passed away before the applicant submits his / her application, it does not fulfil the requirement of continual support to their parent(s).  Applicant needs not fill out the information of his / her deceased parent(s)).
     

     (If applicable) Copy of documentary proof on unavoidable medical expenses (for family members who are chronically ill or permanently incapacitated) for the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025;

  4. Copy of the bank statement / first page of bank book; 

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     If the requirements are met, it is not required to submit relevant supporting document of bank account. If applicant has a successful application under the financial assistance scheme of the Working Family and Student Financial Assistance Agency and was disbursed with payment of grant and / or loan to his / her bank account while the applicant has submitted a copy of bank account proof in the above successful application and uses the same bank account in the application for the 2025/26 school year (i.e. the above bank account which has been disbursed with grant and / or loan)

  5. Documentary proof on total income for the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

• For applications submitted by post, please affix sufficient postage. Applicants should write their address at the back of the addressed envelope to avoid wrong / unsuccessful delivery.

• Please make a copy of the submitted application form for personal retention, if necessary.