As an authorised sponsor, you can apply for the subsidy annually. Please submit a separate application for each educational programme.
You will receive the necessary information for your application from your responsible authority in December before the funding year.
Once your funding authority has checked the application documents received in the spring, it will approve a provisional funding amount. This is based on the previous year's funding and takes into account the provisionally applicable capitation rates. A large part of the funding amount is paid out in monthly instalments until November as an advance payment. Instalments that are due before the decision becomes final will be made up as a one-off payment.
On the basis of this figure, the funding authority prepares the final decision by the end of November/beginning of December and calculates the final funding amount. The monthly payments already made and a lump sum for copyright claims are offset against this final funding amount. Payment is usually made in December if the final funding amount exceeds the instalments already paid by November.
If the total of the instalments already paid out exceeds the final funding amount, the overpaid amount must be refunded by the school authority. Further information can be found in the notification. To speed up the payment process, the school authority can submit a waiver of appeal to the responsible funding authority. The relevant form will be sent together with the decision.