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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.
(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 –
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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
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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.
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| Document Number | Document Name | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
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| 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 |
(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)
Starting from July 2024, other applicants may –
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E-submission
Access the “E-Form” tab in the “SFO E-link – My Applications (Financial Assistance Schemes at Pre-primary, Primary and Secondary Levels)" website to complete and submit E-Form direct; or
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Complete and submit the paper-based Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes, together with copies of relevant supporting documents, to Tsimshatsui PO Box 96824 by post. The related application form and documents will be uploaded to the SFO E-link / this webpage later in due course.
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| Document Number | Document Name | Paper-based Application | Electronic Application |
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| 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 | - |
Applicants should submit their “Household Application Form for Student Financial Assistance Schemes” for the 2023/24 school year to the SFO before the completion of attending classes of the student-applicants or not later than 15 August 2024, whichever is the earlier. Otherwise, subsidy will generally not be released even if they can pass the means test and meet the eligibility criteria. The effective month of fee remission will be the month in which the application forms are submitted by the applicants, or the month in which the student-applicants are admitted to the kindergartens/child care centres, whichever is the later. Please click here for the application form and documents for the 2023/24 school year.