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Non-adjacent rate for mature students

  • 28-06-2011 2:47pm
    #1
    Predalien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭


    I know that mature students are no longer automatically eligible for the non-adjacent rate but does this mean any mature student living within adjacent distance does not get the full grant or is income taken into account in some way?

    I'm thinking about doing a masters, I live a short distance from the college but I'm renting and my income was just about €15,000 last year. Getting a grant of just €1250, which will probably go down in December, won't be much help at all... I didn't get any social welfare payment in the last year so I won't be eligible for the top-up grant either.


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  • #2
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    the automatic entitled mature student situation means that mature students will now be assessed the same as other students with regards to the full non adjacent grant.


  • #3
    Predalien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Predalien


    So in other words I'll just get the adjacent rate?


  • #4
    mflanagan95
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭mflanagan95


    are you not getting btea?


  • #5
    Predalien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Predalien


    No won't be eligible for it, haven't been in receipt of any social welfare payment.


  • #6
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,189 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    You can't get BTEA if you do a masters

    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



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  • #7
    ripo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭ripo


    mango salsa wrote: »
    You can't get BTEA if you do a masters

    Postgraduate courses

    You can get the Back to Education Allowance for a postgraduate course of study that leads to a Higher Diploma (H.Dip.) qualification in any discipline or a Graduate Diploma in Education (primary and secondary teaching). Other types of postgraduate qualifications are not recognised for BTEA.

    You will not get BTEA if you already have a postgraduate qualification.

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


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