Claim up to EUR 375 back from Cevora / Cefora

Your payslip carries the joint committee number, usually printed as paritair comité 200 or commission paritaire 200. PC 200 is the auxiliary joint committee for white-collar workers, the catch-all committee for office staff whose sector has no committee of its own, and it covers roughly 500,000 employees, so the odds are better than most people expect. If the number is not on your slip, ask HR or payroll directly, because they answer this question routinely. Blue-collar contracts, the public sector and sectors with their own committee fall outside it, and in that case the sector fund attached to your own committee is the place to look instead.

Yes. Cevora does not require any provider accreditation, does not maintain a list of approved training bodies for this premium and does not exclude foreign providers, so an invoice from Code Labs Academy in Germany is treated like any other external training invoice. What matters is the format rather than the postcode: the training must be a real course with live teaching, invoiced to you and followed outside your working hours. That is exactly why the distinction between our live virtual classroom and a self-paced video library matters here, and it is worth checking on any provider you compare us with.

Not for the part your employer pays. This premium reimburses training that you buy and pay for yourself, so a course invoiced to your company belongs to the employer channel instead, where a company with a Cevora training plan can claim its own per-day premiums. If the two of you split the fee, be explicit about the invoicing before you enrol: we can issue one invoice to the company for its share and one to you for yours, which keeps each side's paperwork clean. Then check with Cevora how your own share should be presented, because the fund decides how a split file is treated, not us.

Ask for the reason, because most refusals come from something mechanical rather than a judgement about you: the claim arrived after the three-month window, the invoice was in the employer's name, the payment proof did not match the invoice, the payslip did not show PC 200, or the training was self-paced e-learning rather than live teaching. Several of those are avoidable at enrolment, which is why the checklist above matters. It is also worth remembering the shape of this route: there is no approval to obtain before you start, so a refused claim never blocks or unwinds your enrolment, it just means the rebate does not arrive. Cevora assesses each file on its own merits and has the final word.

It may, and the fund decides. The condition is that the training helps you progress professionally, and digital skills are broadly accepted under that heading, including by employers and funds that would once have read them as a departure. A move that has nothing to do with your working life is where the test starts to bite, and that assessment belongs to Cevora, file by file, not to us. Two things make this less risky than it sounds: you claim after the course rather than before, so a refusal costs you the admin and nothing else, and describing the professional link honestly in your claim (the tools your team uses, the work you want to take on) is more persuasive than presenting a bootcamp as a clean break with everything you have done so far.

In order of how much they move: your employer, then instalments. Many PC 200 employers hold a training budget and a Cevora training plan and can fund the course outright or contribute to it, and our guide to employer-funded training sets out the business case and the email to send. If your company is a Brussels SME, it may also be able to apply for the regional training grant, which is assessed case by case and must be applied for before the course starts. Where you carry the cost yourself, we offer interest-free monthly instalments, up to 60 payments, paid directly to Code Labs Academy, a discount for paying the full fee upfront, and the discounts listed elsewhere on the site. Claim the Cevora premium on top of whichever of those applies. One practical detail if you are paying in instalments: the fund reimburses against an invoice in your name plus proof of payment, so ask Cevora what it accepts as proof for a fee you are still spreading, and keep every payment receipt from the start.