Hello.I would like to draw attention to an anomaly that occurred with the entry into force of the ZUJF and which, to my knowledge, remains in the new draft Law on Scholarships.
The problem concerns a group of adult recipients of the Zois scholarship who are in a poor financial situation. This is because, before the adoption of the ZUJF, this group was entitled to two types of benefits that depended on family income: the child allowance and the income-related supplement to the Zois scholarship. With the entry into force of the ZUJF, the right to the child allowance was withdrawn from adults, on the grounds that these funds were being transferred to significantly higher state grants, which is exactly what happened. The problem is that Zois scholarship holders, who were entitled to both the child allowance and the income-related allowance due to their poor financial situation before the ZUJF, were left without both allowances after the adoption of the law: the child allowance due to the mere fact of reaching the age of majority and the income-related allowance due to its abolition, while at the same time there was no increase in the basic Zois scholarship, as is the case with the state scholarships.
Personally, I find it completely unacceptable that Zois scholars with low family incomes have to choose to give up a Zois scholarship and accept a state scholarship, simply because the child benefit has increased these scholarships, which for some of us are now significantly higher than Zois scholarships, and the income supplement on Zois scholarships has been abolished. I am therefore proposing a regulation that would still allow this group of scholarship holders to receive the income-related allowance.