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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by niemandhier on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:10PM (#48418355)
In Germany the government pays your university time. You get about 800€ per month for housing and basic needs. At least if your family is not too well off.

50% of this have to be paid back, free of interest and capped at 10k€. That is not much, but keep in mind that we earn much less than Americans and have much higher taxes.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by magicalhippo on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:49PM (#48418812)
Similar in Norway. Except you have to pass exams to get part of it written off, if not you have to pay back 100%.
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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by em-bee on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:19PM (#48419094)
but this is support for living expenses, not tuition. if you are frugal you can get by not spending all of it. that's what i did. when it was time to pay, i was able to pay off all of it at once which afforded me another discount.
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