Education benefits apply to staff holding regular, open, term, or executive director's advisor appointments. In addition to Staff Rule 06.14, the following apply: - Education Travel Fares
- Reverse Home Country Travel may apply if a child is studying in the staff member's home country
- In cases where the World Bank Group does not pay room and board costs for a primary or secondary boarding school, and is unable to provide a distinction between (i) tuition, and (ii) room and board, to a staff member wishing to confirm education usage, the following percentages apply:
- Military school’s tuition fee = 60 percent of total cost
- All other school’s tuition fee = 65 percent of total cost
- Exchange rates used to reimburse for education abroad are those reported by the UN in their Post Adjustment Circulars. Refer to Annex B: Education Benefits of Staff Rule 06.14. For an illustration of exchange rate reimbursements, click here.
- The Bank Group reimburses only costs related specifically to education of children.
o Reimbursable expenses: - Application fees
- Art fee
- Boarding would be included in the benefits authorization under subsistence allowance, if the school is not in the duty station country
- Building fee
- Capital levy fee, where charged to all students
- Computer fee
- Computer software purchases that are mandatory for a particular class
- Computer network cards, if mandatory. Documentation is required.
- Development fee
- Differential fee
- Diploma fee
- Enrollment fee
- Exam fee, including PSAT, SAT, AP, TOEFL, and GRE exams and Baccalaureate
- Graduation fee
- Lab fee
- Levy Certificate or COG for Jakarta International School only, as this is a pre-enrollment tuition pre-payment unique to that school
- Physical plant fee
- Registration fee
- Room and board, if the school is not in the duty station country
- School equipment/maintenance fee
- Student fee
- Summer school only for university level and if the summer school is at the same institution attended by the child during the regular school year
- Technology fee paid to the school for in-classroom usage, not in dormitory or home
- German School only: Flat rate and membership fee
o Non-reimbursable expenses: - Activity fees; also refer to specific fee name. Example: sports fee
- Before and after-school care expenses
- Boarding, if the school is in the duty station country
- Books not required for classes, including standardized test preparation books. Book expenses are already part of the education grants.
- Camp fee
- Camping fee
- Capital Levy Certificate where required to hold a 'seat' in a particular school; common in some country office duty stations, often the associated region 'owns' several of these seats; for Jakarta International School, see ‘Levy Certificate’ above, in the ‘Reimbursable Fees’ section.
- Church fee
- Class dues
- Clothing
- Cognitive testing
- Computers and accessories such as software and modems except as indicated in the 'Reimbursable' section
- Computer connectivity costs such as DSL line, high-speed internet, and extra dial-up line
- Data and voice connectivity fees
- Dental expenses that would be covered under the Bank Group’s Medical Insurance Plan (MIP), even if the staff member or child is not an MIP participant
- Driver education fee
- Early arrival fee
- Equipment
- Fax costs
- Field trips, even if mandatory
- Fitness center fees
- Fund-raising, fees or otherwise
- Handbooks
- Haircuts—in military academies
- Health club fees
- Health services fees
- Installation plan fees—fees associated with paying expenses in installments
- Instruction fee
- Insurance refund plan
- Interest charged on accounts
- Jackets
- Laptop computers and accessories such as modems, except as indicated in the 'Reimbursable' section
- Locker fees
- Lunch fees
- Meals
- Medication
- Medical testing or other medical expenses that would be covered under the Bank Group's Medical Benefits Plan (MBP)/MIP, even if the staff member or child is not an MBP/MIP participant
- Musical instruments
- Postage
- Preparatory courses for standardized testing such as SAT, PSAT, and Baccalaureate
- Prescription drugs
- Psychological testing
- PTA dues
- Publication fees
- Recital fees
- Reservation fees
- Retreat fees
- Rings
- Room and board, if the school is in the duty station country
- Shipping and handling charges for books purchased online
- Sports fees
- Summer school—kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools
- Summer school, for example, university, where the summer school is not the same institution attended by the child during the regular school year
- School supplies
- Taxes, including sales tax on any purchase of any reimbursable item
- Telephone charges
- Transcript fees
- Transportation fees
- Uniforms
- Visa fees
- Voice and data connectivity fees
- Yearbooks
Refer to the Request Education Benefits checklist for steps to request for education benefits. For more information, refer to Staff Rule 06.14. Note: In case of conflict between this guidance and the applicable staff rule, the staff rule prevails. |
