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Mexico Extends Rita Cetina Scholarship to Primary Students With One-Time 2,500-Peso Payment

Registration details will follow February community assemblies.

Overview

  • The benefit covers first- through sixth-graders in public schools to offset costs of uniforms and school supplies.
  • The government will hold informational assemblies in February to organize delivery, and it has not yet released the registration schedule.
  • Payments will be deposited directly to Banco del Bienestar cards issued after community assemblies.
  • For 2026, new preschool and primary recipients receive a single annual grant while earlier enrollees continue with 1,900-peso bimonthly payments; secondary students get 1,900 pesos bimonthly with a 700-peso sibling bonus.
  • The expansion is part of a plan to reach 22.8 million students this year with a 178.2-billion-peso budget, as secondary card deliveries began January 5 for 1,053,215 beneficiaries.