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btea help please

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  • 17-07-2014 1:00pm
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    archeryjock
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    Hey I'm working part time at the moment 3 days a week. I have been accepted in to college in sept. I am eligible for back to education . age reduced max rate of 160 .
    My question is a a I'm working at the moment I only get paid for 2 days from social welfare. When I go to college I won't be able to work as I work Mon to wed.

    Will I get the full 160 or just the amount I get at the moment?

    Please help stressing about this


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,814 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Best thing to do is ring and ask

    Back to Education Section
    Department of Social Protection
    Social Welfare Services Office
    Government Buildings
    Shannon Lodge
    Carrick-on-Shannon
    Leitrim
    Ireland
    Tel:(071) 967 2616
    Locall:1890 927 999
    Homepage: http://www.welfare.ie

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Hakametal
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Hakametal


    May I ask if you know what qualifies you to get the €188?? I'm going back too but this time I'm 23 and I'm hoping that means I get the full €188?


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    archeryjock
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭archeryjock


    Hakametal wrote: »
    May I ask if you know what qualifies you to get the €188?? I'm going back too but this time I'm 23 and I'm hoping that means I get the full €188?

    You would get an aged reduced rate I think.
    A max of 160


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    Hakametal
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Hakametal


    archeryjock wrote: »
    You would get an aged reduced rate I think.
    A max of 160

    So there's no €188? There definitely used to be, I wonder if it's gone.


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    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    €160 is the max payment for those under the age of 25 and is subject to means test. More details here http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/back_to_education/back_to_education_allowance.html


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    Hakametal
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭Hakametal


    Owryan wrote: »
    €160 is the max payment for those under the age of 25 and is subject to means test. More details here

    Is it possible to get Rent Allowance on top of that, if you meet the requirements?


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    BonkeyDonker
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭BonkeyDonker


    Yes if you meet the qualification requirements - and while on BTEA you can work up-to 20 hours per week without it having a bearing on your main payment. It may reduce your R/A if you qualify, but you should still be in a better place financially.


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    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    Hakametal wrote: »
    Is it possible to get Rent Allowance on top of that, if you meet the requirements?

    Read the link everything is there


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    leaving cert is fun
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭leaving cert is fun


    i was wondering if i can get btea, i took a year out and worked for 2 months in dunnes just for xmass period. and i was on jobseekers from january untill now. i start college in septemper, will i be able to get btea if i am 19 ?


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,814 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    leaving cert is fun wrote: »
    i was wondering if i can get btea, i took a year out and worked for 2 months in dunnes just for xmass period. and i was on jobseekers from january untill now. i start college in septemper, will i be able to get btea if i am 19 ?

    Probably not but the best thing to do is ask in your local welfare office


    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/back_to_education/back_to_education_allowance.html


    Age limits
    To qualify for the Back to Education Allowance, you must be at least 21 years of age. You must be 24 for a third-level postgraduate course.

    However, if you are getting Jobseeker's Allowance, Jobseeker's Benefit or One-Parent Family Payment for the required period(3 months/78 days or 9 months/234 days), are aged between 18 and 20 and have been out of the formal education system for at least 2 years you may qualify.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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