Questão jurídica principal
Whether the private stipends for writing a habilitation thesis had to be counted as income in the EL calculation
Decisão extraída
No. The stipends fell under the statutory exclusion for scholarships and other educational grants.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 11(3)(e) ELG contains an exhaustive exclusion that does not allow a limitation based on whether the grant also covers living expenses. Periodic payment alone does not make the stipends recurring income under Art. 11(1)(d) ELG.