78% reduction

78% reduction is available to:

1. children and adolescents with a disability or handicap up to the age of 24, and students with a disability or handicap up to the age of 26, exclusively for travel from their place of residence or place of stay to a kindergarten, school, college, institution for care and education, special education centre, centre enabling children and young people to fulfil their compulsory education and learning duties, a rehabilitation and educational centre, a social welfare home, a support centre, a health care institution, a psychological and pedagogical counselling centre, including a specialist counselling centre, or a rehabilitation centre - and back, whereby:

• for children and adolescents attending a kindergarten, school, college or centre/institution of an educational nature - certified by a pre-school pass for a disabled child, a school pass for disabled or handicapped pupils or a school or university pass, along with one of the following documents:

- an identity card for a disabled person under the age of 16 issued by an authorised body,
- an identity card for a disabled person issued by an authorised body,
- a decision of an examining doctor of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) or an extract from such decision of an examining doctor of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) stating partial inability to work, complete inability to work, or complete inability to work and inability to lead an independent life, or inability to lead an independent life,
- decision of the medical commission of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) stating partial inability to work, complete inability to work, or complete inability to work and inability to lead an independent life, or inability to lead an independent life,

• for children and adolescents who do not attend a kindergarten, school, college or centre or establishment of an educational nature, along with one of the aforesaid documents.

2. one of the parents or a guardian (adult) of a child or adolescent with a disability or handicap, exclusively for travel from their place of residence or place of stay to a kindergarten, school, college, institution for care and education, special education centre, centre enabling children and young people to fulfil their compulsory education and learning duties, a rehabilitation and educational centre, a social welfare home, a support centre, a health care institution, a psychological and pedagogical counselling centre, including a specialist counselling centre, or a rehabilitation centre - and back, as certified by:

• one of the documents of the child listed below, if the journey is made with the child:
  a) for children and adolescents attending a kindergarten, school, college or centre/institution of an educational nature - certified by a pre-school pass for a disabled child, a school pass for disabled or handicapped pupils or a school or university pass, along with one of the following documents:
  - an identity card for a disabled person under the age of 16 issued by an authorised body,
  - an identity card for a disabled person issued by an authorised body,
  - a decision of an examining doctor of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) or an extract from such decision of an examining doctor of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) stating partial inability to work, complete inability to work, or complete inability to work and inability to lead an independent life, or inability to lead an independent life,
  - decision of the medical commission of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) stating partial inability to work, complete inability to work, or complete inability to work and inability to lead an independent life, or inability to lead an independent life,

b) for children and adolescents who do not attend a kindergarten, school, college or centre or establishment of an educational nature, along with one of the aforesaid documents.

• a certificate issued by a kindergarten, school, college, centre or institution of an educational nature or a foster care centre, or a certificate (notice, referral) as referred to below - if the journey is made to collect a child or after the child has been taken to any of the said institutions.

For journeys to and from healthcare or social welfare facilities or centres organising rehabilitation stays, a certificate (notification, referral) stating the following details, as appropriate, is required (along with one of the documents referred to above):

a) the date and place of the examination, treatment, consultation, rehabilitation sessions, therapeutic sessions or stay in a support centre, nursing home or on a rehabilitation programme,

b) confirmation of attendance at the examination, consultation, rehabilitation session or therapeutic session.

3. soldiers in non-professional military service, with the exception of periodical and overtime service, and to persons fulfilling the obligation of such service in equivalent forms, i.e. those serving:

• military service, including candidate service in the preventive branches of the Police, Border Guard or State Protection Service;
• substitute service;
• serving as candidates for professional soldiers, studying at:

a) military college (officer cadets),
b) school of military ensigns (cadets),
c) non-commissioned officer vocational training (military trainees),
d) orchestra;

• military classes (applicable to students of naval colleges and naval academies) or military training;
• military drills;
• territorialised military service,

with a military identity document (army book) with a current record of non-professional military service.

78% reduction does not apply to journeys made by persons:

1. called to appear in person on matters of general defence duty;
2. called up for military service and released from such service to their place of permanent residence (domicile) or temporary residence for more than two months.

4. persons with war and military disabilities classified as:

• group I of disability or declared totally incapable of working and unable to lead an independent life, even if unconnected with warfare or military service,
• group II or III of disability, or completely or partially incapable of working and, at the same time, included in group I of disability (or declared completely incapable of working and unable to lead an independent life), on the basis of a general health condition, with a book of war-military disability issued by a competent branch of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), with a relevant entry stating that they have been classified in group I of disability (or with an entry stating that they are completely incapable of working and unable to lead an independent life).

5. veterans with war or military disabilities classified in group I of disability or recognised as completely incapable of work and completely unable to lead an independent life, with a card of a repressed person issued by the pension authority, with an appropriate entry of complete incapacity for work and incapacity to lead an independent life.

6. civilian blind victims of warfare declared incapable of independent existence (a person incapable of independent existence is also a person with a severe disability and a group I disability), with a civilian blind victim of warfare card with the appropriate entry (stating incapacity for independent existence or complete incapacity for work), issued by the pension authority.