Overview
- The 2026 schooling bonus is set at S/400 under Supreme Decree No. 002-2025-EF, which establishes the public budget rules for the year.
- Most eligible public-sector workers and pensioners are slated to receive deposits between January 21 and 26, according to the government payment calendar.
- Auxiliary staff and certain contracted teachers will be paid in June 2026, and workers with less than three years of service may receive a proportional amount.
- Eligibility includes appointed and contracted public servants, teachers under the Reforma Magisterial, university faculty, health personnel, public-sector laborers, Armed Forces and National Police members, pensioners, and public workers under the private regime who lack a similar bonus.
- A Congressional education committee approved a draft measure to raise teachers’ schooling bonus and aguinaldos to S/3,500.70 (the first-scale RIM), covering teachers and education auxiliaries, with proposed single-installment payments in March, July, and December, pending full congressional approval.