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DA AND COLLEGE

  • 26-04-2010 6:46pm
    #1
    me8989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    Am I allowed to do a full time college course and receive disability allowance?

    For the record, my DA is for a mental illness. Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Educational Opportunities

    If a person is getting Disability Allowance, they can undertake further educational opportunities without affecting their social welfare entitlements

    If a person is eighteen or over and is in receipt of Disability Allowance for three months or more and attending a full-time second level course at a recognised school or college or is in receipt of Disability Allowance for twelve months or more and attending a full-time third level course at a recognised school or college, they can avail of the Back to Education Allowance Scheme. The only post graduate course options available are Higher Diploma (H Dip) in Education or Graduate Diploma in Education (Primary Teaching) for BTEA purposes.

    If a person is twenty-one or over and in receipt of Disability Allowance for six months or more they can avail of the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS).[see guideline on 'Back to Education Programmes' and VTOS].

    The person will be paid the maximum rate of Disability Allowance and keep any secondary benefits that they already have.


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