Medical students continue to wait three months due to delay in grant payment

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

Heba Press – Abdel Latif Baraka

Thousands of students from Morocco’s medical and pharmacy faculties are still waiting for their scholarships to be paid, the payment of which is delayed several times each year. Even though more than three months have passed since the start of the new academic season, the first tranche of the scholarship, estimated at around nineteen hundred dirhams, has not yet been disbursed, which increases the suffering of students who are facing financial difficulties, particularly given the costs associated with transportation and housing.

According to sources from the National Office of Social and Cultural University Works, the delay is due to the revision of the lists of scholarship beneficiaries, where the information is verified and cases that do not deserve aid are filtered, notably to the light of discovery. names of certain employees among the beneficiaries. At the same time, coordination is underway with the competent authorities, such as the National Social Security Fund, to adjust the regulations.

With the scholarships expected to be disbursed in the coming weeks, students are expressing dissatisfaction with the delay, noting that the delay affects their ability to focus on their studies.

Many of them, according to their contacts with the Heba Press newspaper, consider that the repeated delays in the payment of the subsidy have become an annual routine, calling for improving disbursement procedures and ensuring their transparency.

Students agree on the need to speed up administrative procedures to reduce the financial burden on them, demanding that the value of the scholarship be increased to match the costs of university life, according to the application file they submitted to the government.

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