In this paper, we consider a quite general class of reaction-diffusion equations with cubic nonlinearities and with random Neumann boundary conditions. We derive rigorously amplitude equations, using the natural separation of time-scales near a change of stability and investigate whether additive degenerate noise and random boundary conditions can lead to stabilization of the solution of the stochastic partial differential equation or not. The nonlinear heat equation (Ginzburg-Landau equation) is used to illustrate our result.In the case of nonhomogeneous boundary conditions (i.e., ¤ 0). Sowers [2] has studied parabolic reaction diffusion equation with Neumann boundary conditions by a detailed analysis involving fundamental solutions. Da Prato and Zabczyk [3,4] explained the difference between the problems with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary noises. Moreover, several authors, see for example Chueshov,