Which types of education?

• courses taken in one or various educational institutions
• continued commercial training (business manager) programmes in one or various training centres

Are also eligible:

• part-time general or special secondary education organised by the communities
• certain recognised training programmes

Conditions

• at least 17 class hours per week
• regular attendance of the classes
  
  Some reasons for absence do not detract from this condition (among others: illness of the child, a serious or infectious disease in the family, an extraordinary situation in the family, a strike of the teaching staff, …). In case of unjustified absence, there is no entitlement to child benefit.
  
  Note:
  Study and apprentice time may under certain conditions be equated with class hours.

These conditions are fulfilled by

• special education
• education received abroad insofar as the programme is recognised by the foreign authorities or is equated with a recognised programme

Continuation of the child benefit
The child benefit continues during the Christmas, Easter and summer holidays. The duration of the summer holidays may not exceed 120 days.
If the child does not resume the classes, the child benefit continues to be awarded during the summer holidays. These holidays are considered to end no later than 31 August.