The Minister for Education and Sport, Byron Camilleri, has said that students will benefit from another stipend increase, despite this not being mentioned in Monday's Budget speech.
He also noted that Budget 2027 marks "the largest investment in education" and that how these funds plan on being assigned will be unveiled in the coming days.
Despite going unmentioned during Monday's official Budget 2027 speech, a spokesperson from the Ministry for Education and Sport has confirmed with The Malta Independent that student stipends will be increasing after all.
Speaking to this newspaper, a Ministry spokesperson said that student stipends will be given a boost. No specific figures for the increase were mentioned.
They added over the coming weeks, the respective ministries shall be announcing their own new budget measures - including some that were not mentioned in the Minister for Finance's budget speech on Monday - across the month of November.
He shared this information while decrying a Nationalist Party social media post that labelled the Labour Party's electoral pledge to raise stipends by "another 15%" as fake news.
On Monday evening, shortly after Finance Minister Caruana's official budget speech, the PN posted on its social media page that stipends were not to increase by a cent following their omission in Caruana's Budget 2027 speech, though Minister Camilleri dismissed this on Tuesday morning.
In its 2026 electoral manifesto, the PL's 62nd electoral promise was that "students will benefit from another 15% increase in their stipends."
The official stipend increases following this year's annual budget are yet to be disclosed.
Student stipends were raised, by 15%, just earlier this February. Affecting around 16,600 students, February's stipend boosts cost the government an additional €6 million.
In his first post-budget remarks, Prime Minister Robert Abela said that Budget 2027, in total, amounts to just under €11 billion. Praising this budget's "generosity," Abela had said that the drafted financial allocations for the health and education sectors would combine to around €3 billion.