The Student Welfare Service of the Department of Higher Education under MOECSY offers a specific grant to the parents of Cypriot students studying in Cyprus or abroad in accredited programmes of study, on a basis of socioeconomic criteria, including students with disabilities. In addition, a financial package is available to eligible students to cover subsistence, books, rental and computer expenses. Eligibility is based on socioeconomic criteria.
Scholarships are offered by the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation to Cypriot students based on merit and, mainly, on socioeconomic criteria in order to reach students from lower income backgrounds.
Additionally, the government, through the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, supports people with disabilities for social protection and social inclusion by addressing disability-related costs of disability, through the following:
1. Severe Physical Disability Allowance Scheme
2. Care Allowance Plan for Paraplegics
3. Care Allowance Plan for Quadriplegic Persons
4. Law on Special Sponsorship for the Blind
5. Law on Disability Allowance for the Disabled
6. Financial Assistance Plan for People with Disabilities for car purchase
7. Financial Assistance Plan for Acquisition of Technical Means,Organs and Other Aids by People with Disabilities
8. Financial assistance plan for the provision of wheelchairs for people with severe motor disabilities
9. Management / Lending Plan for Technical Means, Instruments and others Aids
10. Wheelchair Management / Lending Plan
11. Issue of a Parking Card for Persons with Disabilities