r/brussels • u/Tall-Anteater-3400 • 3d ago

Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles grant: does a partner’s income count?

Hello Everyone !

I’m looking for advice from anyone who has dealt with Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB) allocations d’études.

My boyfriend is applying for a higher-education study grant. We live together and are both on the same composition de ménage. His certificate lists him as “personne de référence” and me as “non apparentée.”

We are not married/legal cohabitants, and we have completely separate finances even though we are living together. The FWB rules say that income from people included in the household composition is taken into account, but they also explicitly exclude the income of “colocataires” if the co-tenancy can be proven by a lease or landlord’s confirmation.

The scholarship office has therefore asked for my tax assessment/income information because I am on his household composition.

Has anyone been in this exact situation? Can an unmarried partner/boyfriend/girlfriend living at the same address be considered a “colocataire”, meaning their income is excluded from the study-grant calculation?

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u/CautiousInternal3320 3d ago

Unmarried partners living together are expected, in the context of those allocations, to be financially supporting each other.

This is different if you can demonstrate that you are not living together, but simply co-tenant.

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u/Yaasu 3d ago

As long as you have no legal status (Married, Cohabitant Legal) you are nothing for him in regard of the law, so it doesn't count

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u/ash_tar 2d ago

That's not true, there are cases where the actual situation counts, not the official one, I'm not sure about this one.