The parents of 238,500 children will receive a tuition grant of NIS 1,021 on Tuesday, the National Insurance Institute (NII) has announced.
NII pays a tuition grant for each child aged 6 to 18 to single-parent families and to families with four or more children who are on income support, child support, disability, senior citizen (old age) or Holocaust survivors. The grant, announced on Monday, is intended to help families purchase school supplies for the new school year that is set to begin on September 1.
The total cost of the grant payments is approximately NIS 243 million.
“The NII automatically pays a scholarship each year directly to the bank account of most eligible families, without them having to apply and without unnecessary bureaucracy,” said NII Director Meir Spiegler.
“Detailed text messages about the grant are being sent to the families’ cell phones to facilitate the purchase of the equipment needed for the start of the school year. These are in addition to other services provided to citizens by the NII.”