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Under 23 - Parents Emigrated therefore not being assisted...

  • 23-06-2011 01:54AM
    #1
    ibh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Does anyone know where a student stands re: getting a grant if their parents have emigrated from Ireland and are not earning any money / sending any money to Ireland.

    The student (not me) is going to be living in Ireland with no immediate family and no income aside from savings. It seems like it would be strange (and hard to organise) to have the parents income being assessed for a grant when they have no intention of returning to Ireland.

    I understand that the student finance site has an app form but it just hasn't become available yet. I was just wondering if there is a body that should be contacted asap to clear up where the student stands with regards to what to apply for.

    Any help would be much appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    p28559
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭p28559


    it doesnt matter where the parents are located. when your under 23 your assessed on their income.


  • #3
    Grants fairy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Grants fairy


    Under the current grants schemes your friend would have to be assessed on her parents income. If they live abroad they can submit their Evidence of income from the country they are living in.

    There is a unified grants scheme launching in 2011 and the rules may be different, so if she reads this when it comes out in a couple of weeks, she will have a better idea.


  • #4
    ibh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    Thanks for the reply guys. We'll just have to keep an eye out for the unified Grants scheme and hope there is a way around this.


  • #5
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,220 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    http://www.studentfinance.ie/downloads/Student%20Grant%20Scheme%202011.pdf
    (3) Where it is established to the satisfaction of the relevant awarding authority that the dependent student—
    (a) has no living parent, or
    (b) is irreconcilably estranged from both of his or her parents and neither
    of his or her parents furnishes financial support to him or her (to
    include unaccompanied minor refugees),
    a dependent student may be exempted from having parents’ income taken into
    account.

    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
    20555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭20555


    So if i live in Ireland and my parents don't does that mean they still base it on their income?


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  • #7
    p28559
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭p28559


    mango salsa wrote: »
    http://www.studentfinance.ie/downloads/Student%20Grant%20Scheme%202011.pdf


    they would ask for death certs
    they would ask for evidence in form for court protection order or social worker statement


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