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Mature student being f*****d around be CDVEC..any advice?

  • 13-03-2009 5:19pm
    #1
    dimejinky99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭


    I went back to college&im doin IT in NCI. One of the main reasons i went back was cos studentfinance.ie says as a mature student I'm automaticallly entitled to a grant. But I'd moved home to my aunts to help her out with my uncle who's dying, I was his carer on carers allowance. The CDVEC have moved the goalposts a million times. Initially it was i had to prove I was an independent at that address, so apart from the SW giving me a statement of earnings for the year on the carers, the Community welfare officer gave me a letter saying I was assessed by her as an independent adult at that address for 2007.

    Now, the CDVEC are saying they want my aunts P60 for 2007 OR my fathers for the same year! I'm 33 and havent lived with my dad since I was 18! I don't see how either have any bearing on my status as I was living in my aunts home but I was getting rent allowance and as i said, assessed as an independent.

    Other than getting onto my TD, i've no idea how to proceed, My aunts earnings for that year would cut me out of any grant as would my dads but as i said I don't see how it has any bearing as I wasn't living off them but I was contributing to the household through rent.

    Can anyone advise or give me some help as to how to get around this?

    They've moved the goalposts umpteen times, everytime I get what they ask for, they change it and say they want something totally else.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just out of curiousity - do you have any details of payments (bills etc.) made in your name at that address? Just if you do then I don't see the problem of the VEC since it's obvious you were a tenant.

    Just keep at them. Remember if you disagree with the VECs assessment you can bring it to the Dept. of Education who will arbitrate over your case.


  • #3
    dimejinky99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭dimejinky99


    None of the bills were in my name. A lot of the rigmaroll was me having to prove I was there at all. Thats great news about the Dept. of Education though thanks a million! thanks a million for that!


  • #4
    givyjoe81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 690 ✭✭✭givyjoe81


    dimejinky99 wrote: »
    None of the bills were in my name. A lot of the rigmaroll was me having to prove I was there at all. Thats great news about the Dept. of Education though thanks a million! thanks a million for that!


    Tis good advice. Had my own problems with this shower keeping their purse strings tight, a problem many of them dont have a bog what they are doing. But yes, do speak to the department of education and explain your situation to them, have THEM clarify what exactly it is you need as it is the department who i would have set down the rules by which the vec operates the grant scheme. If you can get something in writing off them and then get exactly what they tell you, the grants shower will be hard pressed to keep messing you around. That said, Dept may just refer you back to grants handbook on the rules of grant application etc.


  • #5
    Offy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭Offy


    dimejinky99 wrote: »
    I went back to college&im doin IT in NCI. One of the main reasons i went back was cos studentfinance.ie says as a mature student I'm automaticallly entitled to a grant. But I'd moved home to my aunts to help her out with my uncle who's dying, I was his carer on carers allowance. The CDVEC have moved the goalposts a million times. Initially it was i had to prove I was an independent at that address, so apart from the SW giving me a statement of earnings for the year on the carers, the Community welfare officer gave me a letter saying I was assessed by her as an independent adult at that address for 2007.

    Now, the CDVEC are saying they want my aunts P60 for 2007 OR my fathers for the same year! I'm 33 and havent lived with my dad since I was 18! I don't see how either have any bearing on my status as I was living in my aunts home but I was getting rent allowance and as i said, assessed as an independent.

    Other than getting onto my TD, i've no idea how to proceed, My aunts earnings for that year would cut me out of any grant as would my dads but as i said I don't see how it has any bearing as I wasn't living off them but I was contributing to the household through rent.

    Can anyone advise or give me some help as to how to get around this?

    They've moved the goalposts umpteen times, everytime I get what they ask for, they change it and say they want something totally else.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    I had a similar problem a few years ago. I have to send in details of my parents income even though I didnt live with them. It took 16 months to get the first grant payment from them. Just stick it out, nothing else for it really.


  • #6
    dimejinky99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭dimejinky99


    Sean Haugheys office called me today, or a lady from the dept. of education i'm not sure but i've to write it all out and mail it back to her & she's getting onto it. I'm not leeting it go no way but wanna go easy too, i'll be applying again in October like!


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