Am I eligible -third level grants.

BJC

Sorry to bring this to a thread but after reading over citizens information, the VEC site, the county council site and countless web forums I'm still a bit miffed. I'm 17, live in Dunboyne and want to go to college in NUI Maynooth. I have three siblings and I estimate my parents to make in the mid 50's per year. Am I eligible for any grants? For any more of my details if you wish to help, please PM me. Thanks to Myth for the extensive help provided on grants and anyone else who can help me!

BJC

BJC wrote: »

Sorry to bring this to a thread but after reading over citizens information, the VEC site, the county council site and countless web forums I'm still a bit miffed. I'm 17, live in Dunboyne and want to go to college in NUI Maynooth. I have three siblings and I estimate my parents to make in the mid 50's per year. Am I eligible for any grants? For any more of my details if you wish to help, please PM me. Thanks to Myth for the extensive help provided on grants and anyone else who can help me!

Hey BJC,

Thanks for the thanks! There's a lot of information out there at the moment so I know what you mean about having read over loads of stuff and still feeling a bit miffed.

I'll start with saying that the rules & regs for 2008/9 academic year are not released yet, so yes you might be eligible or no you might not be eligible, so really the best thing to do tomorrow would be to contact the Council directly. They will have found out any new information first since they admin the scheme.

I'm 17, live in Dunboyne and want to go to college in NUI Maynooth. I have three siblings and I estimate my parents to make in the mid 50's per year. Am I eligible for any grants? For any more of my details if you wish to help, please PM me. Thanks to Myth for the extensive help provided on grants and anyone else who can help me!

OK, based on the present rules, since you're under 23 you can only be assessed on both your income and your parents'/guardians' income. There are plans for this to change next year, but the detail hasn't been released yet.

Based on here, you can see that the highest level of income necessary (based on a sample set of answers I put in to that website) is around €53,000 for 2007/8. Chances are this will go up by a small amount. So yes, you might be eligible based on how your parents have 4 children, plus it also depends how many are in third level education when you're going to college (the income limit increases by an amount depending on how many).

So, really, I could go delving through your details but not only would my girlfriend kill me for spending far too much time on this type of thing, I also think that the best couse of action you can take is to contact the Council or the VEC about this. They can be quit good, and will have the knowledge, hopefully, first hand to give you qualified answers immediately.

Hope it all goes well!

Dónal

dunlops26

Hi there,
I was working up till July 2010 and was then made redundant.I had a good job making in the region of 55k.I got a reasonable redundancy package.I have a mortgage car loan etc. and have loan protection to cover them for now.I have 3 kids my eldest boy started college this month and is in DCU.I applied for the grant and provided all the info regarding my redundancy and what i receive in benefit.I have now been informed that i might not get any grant as they will look at my previous 2yrs income and my severance package.Is this true? I need to pay as much off my mortgage next year and clear loans etc.
Does anybody have any advice or have been in a similiar situation.

thanks

Annasopra

dunlops26 wrote: »

Hi there,
I was working up till July 2010 and was then made redundant.I had a good job making in the region of 55k.I got a reasonable redundancy package.I have a mortgage car loan etc. and have loan protection to cover them for now.I have 3 kids my eldest boy started college this month and is in DCU.I applied for the grant and provided all the info regarding my redundancy and what i receive in benefit.I have now been informed that i might not get any grant as they will look at my previous 2yrs income and my severance package.Is this true? I need to pay as much off my mortgage next year and clear loans etc.
Does anybody have any advice or have been in a similiar situation.

thanks

Yes, your grant usually is assessed on the previous years income ie 2009, however if there is a change of circumstances then this can be taken into account Once you put this on the form; if you are turned down, you can still appeal it and asleep them to take your change of circumstances into account