Financial Assistance Schemes for Primary & Secondary Students

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Overview

The Student Finance Office administers various financial assistance schemes for needy primary and secondary students, including the School Textbook Assistance (TA) Scheme, the Student Travel Subsidy Scheme and the Subsidy Scheme for Internet Access Charges (SIA). Please click here for details of the schemes.

Links, Forms & Download

  • The Student Finance Office (SFO) encourages applicants to register and use “iAM Smart+” to digitally sign the Declaration of “Electronic Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” (E-Form). Applicants will not need to print, sign and submit separately the signed Declaration. For more details on the registration of ”iAM Smart+”, please visit the “iAM Smart” website .

2025/26 School Year
Applicable to Continuing Applicants

(i.e. applicants who have successfully applied for financial assistance in the 2024/25 school year on or before 1 March 2025 for (i) primary and secondary students or (ii) students at pre-primary, primary and secondary levels or (iii) pre-primary students who will be attending Primary 1 (P1) in the 2025/26 school year)

Starting from mid-March 2025, the SFO will issue Access Code and/ or paper-based pre-filled “Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” (Paper-based Pre-filled Form) to continuing applicants in batches according to their option indicated in the 2024/25 application. Continuing applicants may –

    1. E-submission

      Follow the procedures in “Guide to create ‘eWFSFAA’ account for accessing pre-filled forms” to create and verify an “eWFSFAA” account, and access the E-Form which has been pre-filled with their application details (Pre-filled E-Form) via “eWFSFAA”. Continuing applicants may then complete the Pre-filled E-Form, upload relevant supporting documents and submit the application online; or

    2. Complete and submit the Paper-based Pre-filled Form issued by the SFO, together with copies of relevant supporting documents, by post with the return envelope provided by the SFO.

Application Documents
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 107B(1) Guidance Notes Paper-based Application

SFO 107B(2) / SFO 107B(E)

Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form
(including Sample I: Income Certificate; Sample II/III: Profit & Loss Account; and Sample IV: Self-prepared Income Breakdown)
Paper-based Application Electronic Application
Applicable to Other Applicants

(i.e. new applicants and applicants who have NOT received financial assistance for primary and secondary students in the 2024/25 school year on or before 1 March 2025)

Other applicants may –

    1. E-submission

      Create an “eWFSFAA” account to access, complete and submit an E-Form via “eWFSFAA”; or

      Complete and submit the paper-based Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes, together with copies of relevant supporting documents, to Tsimshatsui PO Box 96824 by post.

Application Form and Documents
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 7B Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes Paper-based Application -
SFO 75B(1) Guidance Notes Paper-based Application
SF0 75B(2)/ SFO 75B(E) Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form
(including Sample I: Income Certificate; Sample II/III: Profit & Loss Account; and Sample IV: Self-prepared Income Breakdown)
Paper-based Application Electronic Application
Other relevant forms and documents (applicable on a case-by-case basis)
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 182 Cover Sheet for Addressed envelope for submission of application Paper-based Application -
- Notification of Change of Correspondence / Residential Address Paper-based Application
- Form of Supplementary Information Paper-based Application
Leaflet on Household Application for Student Financial Assistance Schemes
Document Number Document Name

Paper-based Application

Electronic Application
English Leaflet Paper-based Application
  • Leaflet and “Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form” in languages of different races Show more

Remarks:

Documents obtainable from the Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of District Offices, schools, the SFO (Mong Kok office and Cheung Sha Wan office), District Social Welfare Offices of the Social Welfare Department, Regional Education Offices of the Education Bureau and Support Service Centres for Ethnic Minorities.


2024/25 School Year

Under normal circumstances (except financial assistance for pre-primary students), the SFO will not accept any “Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” for the 2024/25 school year submitted on or after 1 March 2025. As far as the fee reimbursement for Diploma of Applied Education (DAE) / Diploma Yi Jin (DYJ) and Financial Assistance Scheme for Designated Evening Adult Education Courses (FAEAEC) is concerned, applicants who need to apply for student financial assistance on or after 1 March 2025 for their children attending the courses commencing during the period from 1 March 2025 to 31 May 2025, they should approach relevant institutions for details of the application procedures and the deadlines. They should also submit application documents to the institutions, for onward submission to the SFO for processing. Please click here for the application form and documents for the 2024/25 school year.