Grant Top up

flyingoutside

Does anyone know what you have to do exactly to get this?
i didn't qualify last year as i was told i had to be unemployed for the previous year. do i get it this year then? I'm an independant mature candidate if this info helps

Annasopra

flyingoutside wrote: »

Does anyone know what you have to do exactly to get this?
i didn't qualify last year as i was told i had to be unemployed for the previous year. do i get it this year then? I'm an independant mature candidate if this info helps

Your income has to be 22700 and you have to be getting a social welfare payment as per below

(7) It is a condition of receiving a special rate of maintenance grant that an
applicant’s reckonable income must include, on the specified date, one of the
eligible payments as provided for in Schedule 2

* To be eligible for the special rate of maintenance an applicant’s reckonable
income on 31 December 2010 must include an eligible payment listed in Schedule 2

As at 31 December 2010, the reckonable income must include one of the eligible
payments listed in this Schedule net of—
(a) income disregards (as set out in article 21(4) of this Scheme); and
(b) Child Dependant Increase (C.D.I.), where paid by the Department of
Social Protection.
Social Assistance Payments
1. Blind Pension
2. Carer’s Allowance
3. One Parent Family Payment
4. Deserted Wife’s Allowance
5. Disability Allowance
6. Farm Assist
7. Jobseeker’s Allowance (where held for 391 days or more)*
8. State Pension (Non-Contributory)
9. Guardian’s Payment (Non-Contributory)
10. Pre-retirement allowance
11. Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partners (Non-Contributory)
Pension
Social Insurance Payments
12. Carer’s Benefit
13. One Parent Family Payment
14. Deserted Wife’s Benefit
15. Invalidity pension
16. Incapacity Supplement
17. Occupational Injuries Death Benefit (Orphan’s pension)
18. Occupational Injuries Death Benefit (pension for a widow or widower)
19. State Pension (Contributory)
20. Guardian’s Payment (Contributory)
21. Jobseeker’s Benefit (continuous for at least 12 months)*
22. Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partners (Contributory) Pension
23. State Pension (Transition)
Designated Programmes
24. Back to Education Allowance (Second Level and Third Level Options)
25. Back to Work Allowance (Employees)
26. Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
27. Community Employment Scheme
28. Rural Social Scheme
29. Tús Initiative
30. FÁS Training Programmes, including Apprenticeships
31. Part time job incentive scheme
*
32. Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)
Others
33. Family Income Supplement (FIS)
34. In receipt of payments under the FIT (Fastrack to IT) initiative equivalent
to a social welfare payment;
35. Participants on a training course approved by a Government Department,
State Agency or Area Partnership and who were in receipt of an eligible
payment prior to progressing to the programme;
36. Grant aided employees in Community Services Programmes (formerly
social economy enterprises);
37. In receipt of payments under the Senior Traveller Training Centre
programmes.