Grants

fitz12

Hi maybe someone can tell me if i can get a grant?
I have a degree already graduated 2008 and never got a grant was told i couldn't get one because of parents wages etc.... anyway i want to go back to college to do another degree is there any grant i can get???? I always paid my own fees never got a penny of my parents or anyone else and it will be the same this time round. Can anyone advise me......... there has to be something i can get??????

Knifey_Spoony

fitz12 wrote: »

Hi maybe someone can tell me if i can get a grant?
I have a degree already graduated 2008 and never got a grant was told i couldn't get one because of parents wages etc.... anyway i want to go back to college to do another degree is there any grant i can get???? I always paid my own fees never got a penny of my parents or anyone else and it will be the same this time round. Can anyone advise me......... there has to be something i can get??????

If you are still living at home, your parents wages will once again be taken into account. If your wages for 2008, combined with your parents wages for 2008, are too high, you won't get the grant.

If however, you have been living independantly from your parents since 1st October last year, you will be able to be assessed on just your own wages.

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm living at home, but I pay my own way, as oppossed to getting money off my mum, but her wages are still taken into account when applying for a grant.

fitz12

Knifey_Spoony wrote: »

If you are still living at home, your parents wages will once again be taken into account. If your wages for 2008, combined with your parents wages for 2008, are too high, you won't get the grant.

If however, you have been living independantly from your parents since 1st October last year, you will be able to be assessed on just your own wages.

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm living at home, but I pay my own way, as oppossed to getting money off my mum, but her wages are still taken into account when applying for a grant.

Its so stupid i pay rent at home and everything id be better off moving out. i might get something then would i? or is it still based on wages....... even though if i go back full time i wont have a job.
I would just like to say im 22 so not a mature student and have completed a level 8 hons degree and the 1 im looking to do now is level 7. so there on different levels make any difference?????

Knifey_Spoony

fitz12 wrote: »

Its so stupid i pay rent at home and everything id be better off moving out. i might get something then would i? or is it still based on wages....... even though if i go back full time i wont have a job.
I would just like to say im 22 so not a mature student and have completed a level 8 hons degree and the 1 im looking to do now is level 7. so there on different levels make any difference?????

It's all based on income.
If you were living elsewhere (i.e. not with your parents), since 1st October last year, only your income would be taken into account.
However, since you are living at home, both your income and your parents income are taken into account. If these combined wages come to €49,961 or more, you are not entitled to any grant.

I'm saying income, instead of wages, as all types of income including social welfare payments, and money from disposing of assets etc, is taken into account. If all this income comes to more than €49,960 for 2008, you will not be entitled to any grant.

I am in the same position as you, living at home and paying rent and buying my own food etc. However, this isn't taken into account, so I am not eligible for a grant this year.

geurrp the yard

fitz12 wrote: »

Hi maybe someone can tell me if i can get a grant?
I have a degree already graduated 2008 and never got a grant was told i couldn't get one because of parents wages etc.... anyway i want to go back to college to do another degree is there any grant i can get???? I always paid my own fees never got a penny of my parents or anyone else and it will be the same this time round. Can anyone advise me......... there has to be something i can get??????

Hi i thought the fact that if you completed a honours degree course and that if you choose to do another one that you are not entitled to a maintence grant even though you did not get in your first degree.

http://www.studentfinance.ie/mp7549/i-am-under-23-years-of-age-on-1-1-2008/index.html

fitz12

Ye I don’t no, I’m obviously not entitled to anything its stupid but looks like theres not much i can do. Thanks for the replays

Gael23

Knifey_Spoony wrote: »

If however, you have been living independantly from your parents since 1st October last year, you will be able to be assessed on just your own wages.
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If you move away for college, could you apply independantly in Year 2?