Press release No. 342 of 12 August 2022
- Decrease in pupils receiving assistance: Shift from training assistance to upgrading training assistance
- Average amount of assistance: 562 euros
- Expenditure on students up 5% on 2020
WIESBADEN – In 2021, a total 623,000 people received training assistance under the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) in Germany, 155,000 of whom were pupils and 468,000 students. The number of students receiving assistance rose slightly by 2,000, or 0.4%, on the previous year. Before, their number had decreased every year since 2012.
Detailed data and long time series are available from the GENESIS-Online database table 21411.
