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Newsflash: If you receive the Back to Education Allowance you will not get a grant

  • 07-12-2010 8:04pm
    #1
    cisco27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭


    The government has announced:

    "Removal of eligibility for student support grants from Recipients of Back to Education Allowance and certain VTOS allowances"

    So I wonder will this mean we won't get our grant cheques in January, or will this apply to the next academic year?


Comments

  • #2
    mikesmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭mikesmt


    that's nothing new. this was announced last year.


  • #3
    cisco27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭cisco27


    mikesmt wrote: »
    that's nothing new. this was announced last year.

    you're obviously not getting both this year


  • #4
    mikesmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭mikesmt


    nope, on btea. and only got my fees paid this year!

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/back_to_education/social_welfare_payments_and_the_student_maintenance_grant_for_the_2010_11_academic_year.html


  • #5
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    mikesmt wrote: »
    that's nothing new. this was announced last year.
    people who were already receiving both were allowed keep both

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #6
    ontour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭ontour


    Does this apply to people who are currently getting both :eek:


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  • #7
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    cisco27 wrote: »
    The government has announced:

    "Removal of eligibility for student support grants from Recipients of Back to Education Allowance and certain VTOS allowances"

    So I wonder will this mean we won't get our grant cheques in January, or will this apply to the next academic year?

    That announcement was in the 2010 Budget. We just had the 2011 Budget. Keep up!


  • #8
    TheReverend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TheReverend


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  • #9
    cisco27
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭cisco27


    Balagan wrote: »
    That announcement was in the 2010 Budget. We just had the 2011 Budget. Keep up!

    Last year's announcement referred to new entrants into college, anyone that had been receiving both continued to do so.

    This year's announcement will now affect people that are currently receiving both.


  • #10
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    ok, i think everyone understands that this is from last year.

    thread locked as no new information can come from it.


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