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Grant question

  • 25-10-2007 08:50AM
    #1
    Pub07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭


    My girlfriend returned to college this year and is trying get the grant. She has two brothers already getting it. Is there a 'only two people per family can get the grant rule' or is that some kind of myth?


Comments

  • #2
    xeduCat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭xeduCat


    No. Not at all. Total urban myth.

    In fact, the impact of a big family is that the threshold for income (under which you must fit to get a grant) actually goes *up*, by about €4k if you have 4 or more (dependent) children in a family and €8k if there are 7 or more.

    Furthermore, when you have multiple people in a family in further/higher education (this can be brothers or sisters or even a parent and child!) the limit goes up (again around €4k, but going up for each extra person).

    So for example while the normal income limit for a full grant is €38765, if you are in a family of four children and you already have two brothers/sisters in college, the income limit is significantly higher.


  • #3
    sd123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭sd123


    can someone tell me where bouts to collect grant money and where bouts that building is?


  • #4
    xeduCat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭xeduCat


    Student Records (House 5 - it's the first house on the right after you enter College through Front Arch - the opposite side of the arch to House 6 where the shop and SU and societies and stuff are). Also, check the Grants noticeboard inside the arch itself, it has a list of councils/VECs/boards and the dates that the cheques have arrived...


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