April 25, 2016. The Councilor for Education of the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, announced that "the Ministry of Education and Universities of the Autonomous Community has launched the call for aid for dining for students for the course 2017 -2018 ".
The Edil said that "after its publication in the BORM on Monday, starting today, the deadline for applications is 15 days. Students can benefit from the aid that will be taken during the course 2017-2018 The levels of the second cycle of early childhood education or primary education in centers supported by public funds, ie public centers or private centers arranged, which have the school dining service.
According to Montiel, "the Autonomous Community will invest 3,820,082 euros in this aid, so the amount is maintained after the large increase of funds of the last year.The individual amount will be equal to the result of multiplying the daily price of the dining service in The corresponding center for the number of days of benefit between September 2017 and June 2018. To obtain these grants will be essential that the income of the family unit in 2016 do not exceed, depending on the number of members eligible, the amounts Maximum levels determined in the call ".
Applications will be submitted to the secretariats of the educational centers themselves.
For those students who are not enrolled in the center before the opening of the previous term (pupils of Kindergarten 3 years usually, or other levels, new incorporation for the course 2017-2018), as well as for possible repeaters Of the last course held in the center (generally 6 ° of Primary Education) that know their stay in the school during a course more after the date of publication of this call, will open a special period of submission of applications that Will be extended from the 1st to the 12th of September 2017, both included.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca