Students will continue to receive 140 denars a day for food after the governing majority in Parliament declined to support an amendment from LSDM to raise the subsidy to 200 denars.
The proposal was one of 124 amendments the opposition submitted to the second revision of the 2026 budget. None was approved.
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To increase the daily meal allowance by 60 denars, LSDM proposed allocating an additional 200 million denars, or about 3.25 million euros. Compared with the current amount, the change would have been an increase of nearly 43 percent.
Rising food prices, inflation and the higher cost of living were cited as reasons for the proposal. Under this reasoning, the 140 denars currently provided are becoming insufficient to meet students’ basic needs.
LSDM had previously called for the budget revision to fund an increase in the minimum wage to 36,000 denars, as well as a higher student meal allowance. The party argued that rising living costs were further eroding citizens’ standard of living.
With the amendment rejected, the call to bring food assistance into line with the actual cost of living remains unmet. The increase to 200 denars will not be implemented for now, and the daily amount for students remains 140 denars.
