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Special rate of grant

  • 09-04-2011 06:41PM
    #1
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    My wife is looking at doing a masters course starting in Autumn, and we've both been unemployed for the past 13 months getting jobseekers allowance & rent allowance. Now she has been approved for Back to education allowance if she wants to go back to undergrad studies but from what I understand she won't get back to education if she does a post grad course. Now if that is the case, would she qualify for the special rate of grant which is €6,100? It says you have to be long term unemployed but what does that mean? If she applies for the grant, say in June, she'll have been unemployed for around 16 months so that's long term to us!

    I'd be grateful if anyone could shed any light on this matter.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,220 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    the rules for grants change from year to year so she could be qualified under 2010/11 and then not under 2011/12 - having said that long term unemployed means more than 1 year so her case looks very favourable

    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



  • #3
    marxcoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭marxcoo


    I think technically long-term unemployed is anything over 12 months but I don't know what the exact criteria is for the special grant rate. The highest rate apart from that though is full fees paid up to around €6250 and around €3250 on top of that so I think it might work out better than getting the BTEA alone and it would be judged on all your earnings from Jan-Dec 2010, not on anything you've earned after that.


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