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Distance with grant

  • 28-01-2011 10:25pm
    #1
    wonderhow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering if any one can help or advise me.....I have been getting the non-adjacent grant with a year, and am thinking of moving up to live in a student house near the college for this term.


    Would I still be entitled to the non-adjacent grant(I know I won't next year- with the 45km restriction implemented)....should I make local authority aware?

    any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance:)


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


    wonderhow wrote: »
    Hi,

    Just wondering if any one can help or advise me.....I have been getting the non-adjacent grant with a year, and am thinking of moving up to live in a student house near the college for this term.


    Would I still be entitled to the non-adjacent grant(I know I won't next year- with the 45km restriction implemented)....should I make local authority aware?

    any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance:)

    As far as I know its based of where your parents live.


  • #3
    ismiseuisce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭ismiseuisce


    If you have applied for the grant as a dependent then the rate will be based on the distance between your parents' house and your college/university.


  • #4
    wonderhow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭wonderhow


    Thanks for replying guys, I'm sure I applied as a dependent alright. But I don't get support from home & depend on the grant on getting me through college.

    So it wouldn't affect the grant if I moved closer to college?


  • #5
    ismiseuisce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭ismiseuisce


    No, I don't see why not. In fact I think that the non-adjacent rate s higher so that those who live further away can afford to rent a place closer to college so that the commute doesn't affect their studies.

    I get the grant as a dependent of my Mum, the family home is in Mayo and I go to college in Dublin. Even though my Mum doesn't give me any money, I'm still registered as dependent on her and I live off the grant here in Dublin during the college year.


  • #6
    wonderhow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭wonderhow


    That's great, thanks a million for your help!:)


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  • #7
    ismiseuisce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭ismiseuisce


    No bother at all. Best of luck with the move. :)


  • #8
    hdowney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    where can i get info on the distance thing for the non-adjacant rate? i have read several different things as to what it is increasing to and i just wanna check. i have applied for several colleges, my first choice being the closest to me at 49.5km from my home.


  • #9
    ripo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭ripo


    can anyone answer this question. I have been studying, and living in Dublin for the last (2 of 3) academic terms while at college and have been getting the non-adjacent grant as a mature student.

    My main place of residence is more than 45 km away, infant around 200 km. This is my permanent address. All letters and correspondence from the VEC has been to this address.

    The VEC listed me as a independent mature student before, as i proved I have been living in Dublin in October, by providing utility bills.


    what is my case for the 2011/2012 grant, will I still be able to maintain the non-adjacent grant as the permanent address is more than 45km, or will they base it on my academic address?


  • #10
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    permanent address

    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



  • #11
    ripo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭ripo


    mango salsa wrote: »
    permanent address


    @ Mango, Thanks for your answer.

    I assume the VEC are only going to change the non-adjacent grant to adjacent for mature students who for example, study in Dublin, live beside the college, but stay with their parents house or rental (in Dublin within 45k) for the summer,

    But not for



    Mature students who, like me, live in Dublin for the academic term, but move into a new room/house each academic term... SO leaving me no choice but to use my parents address as a permanent address for all letters.

    I should also not that i lived abroad for the complete summers, as have always done so, this year I lived and worked in Italy, so I have not even stayed with my parents, and have proof of address in Italy, work contracts, airline tickets (boarding pass)


    I also have two children that i never registered with my grant application, one boy, aged 8, and a girl under one year. maybe i should mention this now that i finally got guardianship rights after a long time taking the ex to court.... anyway's... moving on, do i understand the theory right?

    so i general the distance to and from the college is the permanent address and not college address?


    thanks


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