Are full fees means tested??

lmwell

Hi , hope you can help me;

I just phoned Fingal county council to check about my eligibility for free fees this year, and I was told that fees were means tested on my parents income.

I thought it was just the grant that was means tested??

Is this correct?

Thanks



PS. I'm 25, living at home, but on social welfare

RoyalMarine

since your 25, and on social welfare, are you applying for BTEA?

if yes, then you still apply to the VEC for your fee's to be paid.
However, since your living at home, they will still means test you based on your parents income to assess if your elligable to receive free fee's.

im 27, living away from home since i was 19, and last summer i spent 2 months at my parents house, and they are now assessing me on my parents income due to this.

its a horrible and flaud system, but sadly, thats how they operate.

lmwell

RoyalMarine wrote: »

since your 25, and on social welfare, are you applying for BTEA?

if yes, then you still apply to the VEC for your fee's to be paid.
However, since your living at home, they will still means test you based on your parents income to assess if your elligable to receive free fee's.

im 27, living away from home since i was 19, and last summer i spent 2 months at my parents house, and they are now assessing me on my parents income due to this.

its a horrible and flaud system, but sadly, thats how they operate.

Hey thanks for replying;
I'm about a month short on the BTEA so I dont qualify, but my main hope was to avoid the full fees

On the student finance website it says that :

If you are planning to progress to full-time further education or undergraduate higher education in Ireland for the first time and you meet certain nationality and residency requirements, you should be eligible to have course fees paid on your behalf by the State.

..which is me. It doesnt say anywhere on the website about this being means-tested, just meeting other requirements.

If you then progress to post-graduate education, it is possible through the means-tested student grant schemes to have all or part of your tuition fees paid for by your local grant-administering body.

..which is not me, because my course is undergraduate.


I dont understand why my fees have to be means tested???
Thanks for your help

RoyalMarine

talk to the facilitator in your local social welfare office.

they can waiver a few weeks if your short for BTEA. they did for me.