The amounts of the basic grant, supplementary grant and loan have been determined. The amounts up to and including December 2025 can be found in the overview below. From 1 January 2026, these amounts will be indexed by DUO.
Amounts
Basic grant living away from home €338.68
Basic grant living at home €103.78
Supplementary grant maximum €455.22
Loan maximum €226.08
Maximum for students living away from home € 1019.98
Maximum for students living at home € 757.68
Parents’ income for maximum supplementary grant €39,030.00 or less
Parents’ income for minimum supplementary grant At least €70,000
The maximum amount that a student living away from home can receive as a basic grant, supplementary grant or loan is the same as the maximum amount that students can currently receive as a supplementary grant and loan, namely €1,019.98. The maximum amount that a student living at home can receive is considerably lower. This is €757.68 in total. This is because the maximum loan amount is the same for students living at home and those living away from home, while the basic grant is considerably lower. According to the Ministry, this is justified because students living at home have lower costs and so that students living at home cannot take out unnecessarily high loans, which means that their student debt cannot accumulate as quickly.
The supplementary grant has been increased and the group of students who are eligible for it has also been expanded, as the parental income threshold has been raised to €70,000. This means that if your parents earn €70,000, you are eligible for the minimum supplementary grant, and if your parents earn a maximum of €39,030, you are eligible for the maximum supplementary grant. The reasoning is that the more your parents earn, the more they can contribute to your studies and the less supplementary grant you can receive. You can calculate how much supplementary grant you can receive using this calculation tool on the DUO website.
All amounts are indexed annually for inflation. This is considered desirable because the cost of living is always subject to inflation. If this did not happen, it would mean that as inflation rises, students’ purchasing power would decrease every year. Indexation always takes place on 1 January.
Who is eligible for the basic grant?
Anyone who is studying and meets the conditions is eligible for the new basic grant for the nominal duration of their studies. In short, these conditions are that you are enrolled full-time or in a dual programme at a recognised institution and that you are still within the nominal duration (the official length of a programme) of your studies. The total number of months you are entitled to a basic grant is calculated by multiplying the nominal duration of your studies by twelve. For almost all programmes at universities of applied sciences and research universities, the nominal duration of studies is 48 months, or four years. This means that students who start their studies in 2025/2026 are entitled to 48 months of basic grant. Suppose you started your programme in 2025/2026, then from 1 September 2026 you will still be entitled to 36 months, or three years, of basic grant. If you started your programme in 2024/2025, you will still be entitled to two years of basic grant from 1 September 2026. If you started your course in 2023/2024, you will still be entitled to one year of basic grant in September 2026. If you transfer from mbo to hbo from 2025/2026 onwards, you will receive new student finance entitlements, which means you can make use of the basic grant for four years.