The Association Luxembourgeoise des Employés de Banque et d'Assurance (ALEBA) which represents banking and insurance employees in the Grand Ducy, has issued a statement on Cedies, the state's student loan and grant-awarding organisation.

In July 2010 the legislator decided to stop the payment of family allowances for all children over 18 years of age who were pursuing higher education and instead to grant - via CEDIES (Centre for Documentation and Information on Higher Education) - financial aid in the form of grants and loans to Luxembourg resident students only. From that moment on, ALEBA was contacted by many of its non-resident members who were denied such financing for their children.

From the end of 2010, and in the years that followed, ALEBA initiated hundreds of individual actions before the Administrative Court on the grounds that the new regulation was discriminating vis-à-vis the children of non-resident employees, and therefore contrary to European law. The Court of Justice of the European Union was consulted on the issue, and its judgment of 20 June 2013 supported ALEBA, allowing a first revision of the Luxembourg legislation in July 2013.

ALEBA has argued that the changes made were insufficient: if the residency clause was removed, two new discriminations appear in effect with the introduction of new criteria that are still unfavourable to non-resident employees (condition of uninterrupted working time of at least five years, and direct relationship with the child). ALEBA therefore is going up again before the administrative courts, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

In December 2016, in two judgments, the European Court once again supported ALEBA and criticised the discriminatory provisions mentioned above. The national legislation in force would be repealed.

These three legal battles, according to ALEBA, would eventually lead to a favourable outcome and, by the beginning of 2017, all the children of its members concerned would benefit from the requested financial assistance.

However, and as of September 2013, alongside the OGBL and the LCGB trade unions, and with the support of the CSL, before the civil courts ALEBA also denounced what they described as the "wrongful" acts of the State and obtained compensation for damages suffered by the children of its members who could not obtain the scholarships between 2010 and 2013.

For the cases entrusted to it, ALEBA has continually undertaken, before the competent courts, all possible actions to defend the interests of employees concerned, especially its members. Unfortunately the Luxembourg courts, at the level of the District Court as well as the Court of Appeal, was of a different opinion, considering that the State had acted correctly. ALEBA, therefore, has chosen not to go further in these cases and will not appeal to the Court of Cassation.

For other cases, still in progress and assigned to the national unions, ALEBA will follow up for its concerned members as soon as the court decisions are known. In addition, other fighting continues to be conducted by ALEBA for its members affected by the new legislation of 2014 (APL deduction).​