The Department of Education in collaboration with the Consumer, affects the recommendations when purchasing school supplies and provides parents with school-age children a few tips for the beginning of the new academic year 2013-2014.
Accordingly, when making purchases parents should consult the school which is the material that corresponds to the course of their children and caution is advised when making purchases and reflect on the necessity and appropriateness of the items school they will need small.
As a first step before you start shopping, it would be desirable to develop a list of all necessary materials, compare prices and see possible promotions.
It would also be necessary to ensure that the items purchased are needed.
At the time of acquiring the material must always require proof of purchase, which contains the price to be paid for each product, as this is necessary if you want to make any exchange or refund, and if necessary make a complaint.
Also, before the payment of the material, you should ask the repayment period and if the proof of purchase has expired or not.
From the Department of Education are reminded that books and school supplies enjoy the same guarantees system than any other product, ie original default two years.
Also, the return of the goods is not a consumer right is an option of the seller, so you can choose to admit it or not the return and, if it is accepted, you can choose to return the money or give a worth value of the returned product.
The Councillor for Education, Ramiro Garcia also recalled that the deadline for submitting applications to access financial assistance for the purchase of educational materials in textbooks remain open until September 28.
These are aimed at upper secondary school education of children, ie children aged 3, 4 and 5 year-olds enrolled in the school year 2013/2014.
This year as a novelty, amending aid system so that instead of being one similar amount for all children 30 euros, in the announcement of this year will increase to 100 euros aid will be distributed according to the criteria Family socioeconomic beneficiary, thus prioritizing the students and students with greater needs.
Applications can be submitted to the General Register of the City.
The bases and application forms can be found on the Department of Education, in the House of Culture and in the following web link to the city: http://www.jumilla.org/noticia.asp?cat=4690.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla