School Financial Support
School Saving Bonus
Accessing the School Saving Bonus
Parents and carers of students enrolled at a government school by 28 February 2025, will access their School Saving Bonus via an email sent from the Department of Education.
If you enrolled your child after the first day of school for the 2025 year, your School Saving Bonus code will be distributed in mid-March 2025.
The Department of Education and the Victorian Government will never ask you to provide your banking or financial details for the School Saving Bonus.
A School Saving Bonus email was sent per child, so parents and carers with multiple children would have received an email for each child in their family. The emails may have arrived at different times.
E email contains a unique code for the $400 bonus and access to the School Saving Bonus online system.
To learn more about the School Saving Bonus online system, download the step-by-step user guide (DOCX, 945KB) or watch this video. User guide translations are also available in 14 languages.
Please check junk or spam folders for this email. For enquiries, please use the School Saving Bonus enquiry form.
Allocating the School Saving Bonus
Families can choose how they allocate and spend the School Saving Bonus funds using the online system. The School Saving Bonus can be used towards 2025 school costs, which may include:
camps, trips, excursions and incursions
swimming and sporting programs
outdoor education programs
graduations
school uniforms
textbooks.
Families can use the online system to choose how they’ll spend their School Saving Bonus.
The Bonus can also be used at your school’s designated textbook or uniform suppliers in-store or online, or through State Schools’ Relief until 30 June 2025.
If your school does not have a uniform, or if you would like to use your bonus for unbranded school uniform items, you can use the bonus through the State Schools' Relief.
If any amount is unspent as at 1 July 2025, it will automatically become a school activities credit for you to use through your school. The credit will be available for you to use at the school from August 2025. The delay is to allow for the processing of outstanding transactions and invoices with suppliers. If you will need to access the School Saving Bonus for school activities in July 2025, please access the online system before 30 June 2025 to manually allocate to school activities. This credit for school activities will help cover the cost of things like excursions and camps.
Families who do not want to use the School Saving Bonus can elect to provide this money to their school for use by other students needing support. Please contact your school directly.
Student Eligibility
The School Saving Bonus is available to parents and carers of every Victorian government school student from Prep to Year 12 in 2025, except for full-fee international students, home-schooled students, and TAFE students.
There is no application required for eligible government school parents to receive the School Saving Bonus.
CSEF Support 2025
CSEF (Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund) is currently open for 2025. If you think you may be eligible, application forms can be collected from the General Office. Please note that applications close on the last day of Term 2.
Saver Plus
