Kindergarten & Child Care Centre Fee Remission Scheme (KCFRS) & Grant for School-related Expenses for Kindergarten Students (Grant-KG)

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Overview

The Student Finance Office administers two financial assistance schemes for needy pre-primary students, including the Kindergarten and Child Care Centre Fee Remission Scheme (KCFRS) and the Grant for School-related Expenses for Kindergarten (Grant-KG). Please click here for details of the schemes.

Links, Forms & Download

  • The Student Finance Office (SFO) encourages applicants to register and use “iAM Smart+” to digitally sign the Declaration of “Electronic Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” (E-Form). Applicants will not need to print, sign and submit separately the signed Declaration. For more details on the registration of ”iAM Smart+”, please visit the “iAM Smart” website.

2024/25 School Year
Applicable to Continuing Applicants

(i.e. applicants who have successfully applied for financial assistance for pre-primary students in the 2023/24 school year on or before 1 May 2024)
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Applicants (i) with child(ren) attending Primary 1 in the 2024/25 school year; or (ii) who have successfully applied for financial assistance for primary and secondary students in the 2023/24 school year, please refer to the Application Processing Timetable applicable for “primary and secondary students” of continuing applicants.

Starting from around end May 2024, the SFO will issue Access Code and/ or paper-based pre-filled “Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” (Paper-based Pre-filled Form) to continuing applicants in batches according to their option indicated in the 2023/24 application. Continuing applicants may –

    1. E-submission

      Access the “Pre-filled E-Form” tab in the “SFO E-link – My Applications (Financial Assistance Schemes at Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary Levels)” website, and use “iAM Smart” or enter the Access Code and required information to open the E-Form which has been pre-filled with their application details (Pre-filled E-Form). Continuing applicants may then complete the Pre-filled E-Form, upload relevant supporting documents and submit the application online; or

    2. Complete and submit the Paper-based Pre-filled Form issued by the SFO, together with copies of relevant supporting documents, by post with the return envelope provided by the SFO.

Application Document
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 107B(1) Guidance Notes Paper-based Application
SFO 107B(2)/ SFO 107B(E) Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form (including Sample I: Income Certificate; Sample II/III: Profit & Loss Account; and Sample IV: Self-prepared Income Breakdown) Paper-based Application Electronic Application
Applicable to Other Applicants

(including new applicants, and those who have NOT received financial assistance for pre-primary students in the 2023/24 school year on or before 1 May 2024)

Other applicants may –

Application Form and Documents
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 7B Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes Paper-based Application -
SFO 75B(1) Guidance Notes Paper-based Application
SFO 75B(2)/ SFO 75B(E) Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form (including Sample I: Income Certificate; Sample II/III: Profit & Loss Account; and Sample IV: Self-prepared Income Breakdown) Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 288E School Certificate (should be submitted to schools in paper format for processing) Paper-based Application
SFO 293E Notes on How to Complete and Return “School Certificate” (SC) Paper-based Application
Other relevant forms and documents (applicable on a case-by-case basis)
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
SFO 235A# “Social Needs” Assessment Form for Kindergarten and Child Care Centre Fee Remission (only applicable to whole-day fee remission application from children aged between 0 and 3 attending child care centre or kindergarten-cum-child care centre) Paper-based Application -
SFO 108 Cover Sheet for Supporting Documents Paper-based Application -
SFO 182 Cover Sheet for Addressed envelope for submission of application Paper-based Application -
- Notification of Change of Correspondence / Residential Address Paper-based Application
- Form of Supplementary Information Paper-based Application
Leaflet on Household Application for Student Financial Assistance Schemes
Document Number Document Name Paper-based Application Electronic Application
English Leaflet Paper-based Application
  • Leaflet and “Notes on How to Complete and Return Household Application Form” in languages of different races +Show more

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Documents obtainable from the SFO (Mong Kok office and Cheung Sha Wan office).

Documents obtainable from the Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of District Offices, schools, Regional Education Offices of the Education Bureau, the SFO (Mong Kok office and Cheung Sha Wan office), District Social Welfare Offices of the Social Welfare Department and Support Service Centres for Ethnic Minorities.