SUSI Grant application

GingerNut93 wrote: »

We should be so lucky!! I have my college place and now I'm anxiously waiting to see if I get a grant or not

I honestly don't know what there at, is it just 1 or 2 people stuck I'm a miserable office somewhere! I don't know of a single person that have got final assessment yet

Xscreamokidx wrote: »

Anyone else's on "Awaiting final assessment"?

I've been at this stage since the 18th of June

KellyR18 wrote: »

Would you say fees will be delayed until grant goes through?

Yes. The fees cant be paid by susi until susi decide. In some cases colleges are prepared to wait. In others they insist on payment.

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Was on the phone to SUSI today and they were saying there its a 6 week turnaround at the moment, not sure if they are lying or not but they said they would expect me to hear next week or week after.

I'm going into my final year, renewed my application 5 weeks ago today, i'm still on the first stage, haven't even been initially assessed yet. SUSI is a pile of bóllocks

I'm in the same boat as everyone else. I'm surprised the media haven't gotten involved yet. Maybe we should contact a few places. This is insanity.

Gaw_ wrote: »

I'm in the same boat as everyone else. I'm surprised the media haven't gotten involved yet. Maybe we should contact a few places. This is insanity.

It wouldnt really be a media issue at all yet. Sure termtime hasnt started!

Lee Arsenal wrote: »

I rang SUSI and they said I should hear something next week by letter. I applied in mid May and now stuck on 'app awaiting assessment' since June 23rd.

He said it takes 12 weeks minimum from when you submit an application and I'm in a queue with May applications. This is madness taking forever

I did the same as you nearly 2 weeks ago and the said the exact same about a letter, surprise surprise. ..... I'm still waiting for one.

Lee Arsenal wrote: »

Load of bollocks this is. Has anyone been approved yet?

Not one single person that I know of.

Arnold Tanzarian wrote: »

Question for anyone that can help me :

I have never applied for the grant before as my parents income combined is over the limit. I am now gone back to do a masters in college aged 23 and I am not getting any financial aid at all from my parents and living away from home. I applied for the grant about 3 weeks ago putting "estranged" into the parents section. If I am asked for documentation what will i do? I mean legally they are still my parents but I am barely home once a month and as i said i receive no financial aid from them. What will susi ask me for ?

If you are living away from home and have utility bills and/or a rent agreement with your name on it then your parents income is not taken into account as you are financially independent.

Arnold Tanzarian wrote: »

Thank you. However the bills are in the landladys name that come to the house and all my bills etc are still addressed to my home address. Any ideas?

Do you have a lease or a rent agreement with your name on it? You need to prove independent living from October of last year. They are really strict on this. My OH can't get the grant because he doesn't have utility bills from last year, even though he has bank statements, social welfare letters etc.

Gin plus shock blanket wrote: »

I had the same issue last year. They will accept the bank statement as long as it shows rent going out of the account and the Social Welfare Letter must be in relation to rent allowance. In lieu of that A lease or a rent book are good but also a letter from your landlord with his PRTB registration number on it works as well.

My OH lives with me in my dad's house so there's no paper trail bar his bank stuff, phone bill, SW letters and other miscellaneous, none of which they will accept, we also sent a signed affidavit swearing he is financially independent at my dad's address but no joy. They really like everyone to fit into their perfect little boxes He now has to reapply as a dependent on his parents despite being 30 years old and not being home in 12 years :rolleyes: Before he can do that he had to cancel his previous application so he's been waiting for 2 weeks for the cancellation confirmation letter before he can start all over again. College only starts in 3 weeks like! Very slow system.

Gin plus shock blanket wrote: »

In regards to the fees, most colleges are more than aware at this point about what SUSI are like. On registration day if you can provide proof that you have submitted an application to SUSI and that it's being processed that should be OK.

That's a huge relief. He was going to call the college to discuss a student loan or payment plan as we were pretty worried he wouldn't be allowed to register until he paid something!

Xscreamokidx wrote: »

Great. So apparently they lost my documents so I have to send them again, this is ridiculous

Heres their complaints process

Use it

http://www.susi.ie/QuickLinks/Complaints.aspx

oldyouth wrote: »

Dealing with SUSI today regarding my sons application. An issue has arisen over a document I sent them last year and got the following response


I understand that you have sent in documentation relating to this before for last years application.

However I can advise that if you do not have this documentation anymore, we can send out copies to you if you so request. You could then send them back to us.........................

You're joking...

My OH finally got his letter in the post saying his application was cancelled, yet he still couldn't open a new application and when he eventually got through to them on the phone the guy hadn't a clue what he was talking about, kept telling him to enter his name all in caps and then uppercase initials, then told him he was in the wrong section (grantsonline) and slowly talked him through the process of clicking "apply online" on the SUSI website which of course brings him right back to grantsonline! The guy then eventually figures out that even though his application is cancelled, his PPS number is still on the system and he'll have to wait til Monday for them to take it off. Clocks a-ticking like...