A few days before the start of the 2026-2027 school year, scheduled for September 15, several social measures are expected to help ease the expenses of Tunisia’s poorest families. The government has mobilized an additional allocation of 67 million dinars to fund financial and in-kind aids as well as the free transport for the beneficiaries concerned.
The Ministry of Social Affairs notably announces a 100-dinar aid for 430,000 students from poor and low-income families, as well as a 120-dinar aid per student belonging to the same social category. Free subscriptions for school and university transport are also planned.
The Essentials
- 100 dinars per pupil for 430,000 pupils from poor and low-income families.
- 120 dinars per student belonging to the same social category.
- Free school and university transport for the beneficiaries concerned.
- 67 million dinars additional have been mobilized for the entire back-to-school social aid program.
- The amount of 100 dinars per pupil has not changed since the 2023-2024 school year.
- The practical modalities for disbursement and the issuance of subscriptions for 2026-2027 still need to be specified.
Who can benefit from the 100 dinars?
The aid of 100 dinars concerns 430,000 students from poor and low-income families.
The scheme particularly targets families benefiting from the Amen Social program or those deemed eligible for the social assistance scheme according to the applicable regulatory conditions.
The back-to-school aids fit within the mechanism supporting children from the most vulnerable households.
One point deserves to be noted: the ministry’s general administrative sheet still shows an amount of 50 dinars per enrolled child, whereas communications related to recent intakes have raised this aid to 100 dinars. For 2026-2027, the 100-dinar amount announced for the 430,000 pupils is the most recent information.
Who can benefit from the 120 dinars?
For students, the announced amount is 120 dinars per beneficiary.
This aid is intended for students from poor or low-income families under the relevant social program.
The ministry did not specify, in the available announcements for this intake, the total number of students who will benefit from the 120 dinars. By way of comparison, around 25,000 students were affected during the 2024-2025 intake.
A 100-dinar amount unchanged since 2023
The amount granted to pupils is not new.
The aid was raised from 50 to 100 dinars starting with the 2023-2024 intake. It has remained fixed at this level since.
Meanwhile, prices continued to rise. The Central Bank of Tunisia still reports an average inflation of 5.2% in the first half of 2026, after 5.7% a year earlier.
Maintaining the aid at 100 dinars therefore means its real value gradually declines with the overall rise in prices. Calculating the cumulative erosion since 2023 would require reconstructing price changes over the entire period.
How many pupils were involved in recent years?
The available figures are not all directly comparable: some correspond to targets announced before the start of the school year, while others relate to first installments actually paid.
| Start of the school year | Beneficiaries announced | Documented disbursement | Amount per pupil |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | 520,000 | 418,593 in the first tranche | 100 dinars |
| 2025-2026 | — | 435,376 in the first tranche | 100 dinars |
| 2026-2027 | 430,000 | To be announced | 100 dinars |
Data are not all directly comparable: some figures correspond to beneficiaries announced before the start of the school year, while others relate to a first tranche actually paid.
For the 2024-2025 intake, 520,000 beneficiaries had been announced. The first disbursed tranche ultimately involved 418,593 pupils from 231,312 families.
One year later, the ministry announced the payment of a first tranche to 435,376 pupils belonging to 238,133 Amen Social beneficiary families, for a total estimated amount of about 43.5 million dinars.
For 2026-2027, the currently announced figure is 430,000 pupils.
The comparison should therefore remain cautious: the 520,000 in 2024 and the 430,000 in 2026 are announced targets, while the intermediate figures of the last two campaigns correspond to documented disbursements.
Between the two announced targets of 2024 and 2026, the gap nevertheless reaches 90,000 pupils, i.e., -17.3%. This comparison concerns only announcements and not the final numbers of beneficiaries actually served. TN calculation.
What do the 100 dinars represent within the 67-million-dinar envelope?
If the 430,000 announced pupils each benefit from 100 dinars, the total disbursements would amount to:
43 million dinars.
This amounts to about 64% of the additional 67-million-dinar envelope announced for the entire program. TN calculation.
This proportion does not mean, however, that the remaining 24 million dinars correspond solely to transport or to the aid for students. The government envelope also funds in-kind assistance and other social measures related to the back-to-school period.
Who is entitled to free transport?
The program also provides free subscriptions for school and university transport for the eligible social beneficiaries.
The restricted cabinet meeting of August 14, 2026, chaired by the head of government, Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri, confirmed that free transport was part of the measures funded under the additional 67-million-dinar envelope.
The available official communications, however, do not yet detail all the modalities for issuing these subscriptions across the various transport companies.
We must therefore distinguish the announced right to free transport from the practical procedure that will allow obtaining the subscription for the 2026-2027 intake.
What conditions and what documents?
In previous campaigns, the beneficiary, whether pupil or student, had to possess a social identifier in the Amen Social system and be registered in the systems corresponding to their school, university, or training establishment.
Depending on the situations, several supporting documents may be requested:
- an attendance certificate or enrollment certificate for the pupil;
- an enrollment certificate for the student;
- a copy of the student’s identity card;
- a copy of the head of family’s identity card and, where applicable, the spouse’s identity card if their status is not already registered in Amen Social.
The ministry’s administrative sheet indicates that this service is not offered entirely remotely. Families whose situation is not regularized therefore have an interest in checking their file with the local social promotion structures.
Where to collect the 100 or 120 dinars?
In previous campaigns, beneficiaries were invited to go to post offices to collect the funds corresponding to the aids.
Withdrawal could also be carried out using the social withdrawal card for those who had one.
The precise modalities of the 2026-2027 campaign have not yet been detailed, so affected families should await the Ministry of Social Affairs’ upcoming statements before traveling to collect.
Disbursement is scheduled for September
The Ministry of Social Affairs states that the aids related to this intake will be disbursed during the month of September.
This presentation, however, deserves a historical clarification. The ministry’s own statements show that first installments had already been paid in September during the two previous intakes: September 13, 2024, and then September 22, 2025.
The novelty announced for 2026 could therefore concern either the overall calendar or a faster completion of the program rather than the mere start of payments in September. The available communications do not yet allow for a precise clarification.
For the families concerned, the essential point remains that these aids come at a time when the main back-to-school expenses are concentrated: school supplies, registrations, and transport.
