Greek student housing allowance 2025-2026: amounts and conditions
A yearly payment for families who pay rent because their child studies in another town.
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A family with one child and €28,000 of income, whose student shares a rented flat with another student in Athens, receives a student housing allowance of €2,000 for the 2025-2026 academic year. The allowance under article 10 of Law 3220/2004 is €1,500 for studies in Attica or Thessaloniki and €2,000 for a university anywhere else, rising to €2,000 and €2,500 when the student shares the flat with another student. Family income for 2025 must not exceed €30,000, plus €3,000 for each dependent child after the first, so €33,000 for a family with two children. The student needs a lease of at least 6 months in a town other than the family home, must have passed half of last year’s courses, and the family’s homes must not exceed 200 m² in total. Each university pays the allowance once funds arrive from the Ministry of Education. The calculator gives the amount for your situation.
Student housing allowance
€1,500
per year, academic year 2025-2026
| Amount for this case | €1,500 |
| Income limit | €33,000 |
| Highest amount | €2,500 |
A lease of at least 6 months in a different town from the family home, half of last year’s courses passed, family homes up to 200 m².
Amounts and limits from the Ministry of Education circular, as in force in 2026 · calculated in your browser, nothing is sent.
The conditions, line by line
| Test | Rule |
|---|---|
| Student | Greek or EU citizen, Greek tax resident, academic ID, within the normal length of the degree, no previous degree |
| Progress | First year: enrolled. Later years: at least half of last year’s courses passed |
| Lease | Electronic lease of at least 6 months in the town of the university, a different town from the family home |
| Family home | No home owned in the town of study; all family homes together up to 200 m² (homes in places under 3000 inhabitants not counted) |
| Income | €30,000 plus €3,000 per dependent child after the first |
Attica counts as one town, except its islands and areas more than 40 km away, and so does the Thessaloniki urban area: a family living in one Athens suburb cannot claim for a flat in another. A semester in a university residence is allowed; a whole year is not.
Income limit for your family
The income is the family’s total for the tax year before the academic year, 2025 for 2025-2026. For families on the edge, the €3,000 per additional child matters: three children raise the ceiling to €36,000.
Two allowances, one flat
The student housing allowance can be combined with the rent refund paid by AADE each November, which returns one twelfth of the year’s rent on a student flat up to €800, with an income test only. On a typical student rent, together they cover several months of rent a year.