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B.T.E.A Rates

  • 25-08-2011 10:17am
    #1
    Black_Ninja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭


    Hi just wondering what are the current rates for the BTEA?
    I am 20. I was receiving €100 a week JCA but I am currently doing a FAS course and I am receiving 188€ a week


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Black_Ninja wrote: »
    Hi just wondering what are the current rates for the BTEA?
    I am 20. I was receiving €100 a week JCA but I am currently doing a FAS course and I am receiving 188€ a week

    188

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/back_to_education/back_to_education_allowance.html
    The Back to Education Allowance is paid at a standard rate. This means, if you are getting a reduced rate of payment it is increased to the maximum standard rate of payment while you are getting BTEA. If you are already getting the maximum rate, you continue to do so.

    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
    Black_Ninja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Black_Ninja


    Thanks mango_salsa


  • #4
    Black_Ninja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Black_Ninja


    Got turned down due to the fact I have completed a FETAC Level 5 Cert before :(


  • #5
    hdowney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    Black_Ninja wrote: »
    Got turned down due to the fact I have completed a FETAC Level 5 Cert before :(

    and were you applying to do another level 5 or a higher level? how long since you did your level 5?


  • #6
    martyoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 872 ✭✭✭martyoo


    Got turned down due to the fact I have completed a FETAC Level 5 Cert before

    Crazy turning people down! That's Ireland for ya.

    What kind of business were you going to set up?


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  • #7
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    martyoo wrote: »
    Crazy turning people down! That's Ireland for ya.

    What kind of business were you going to set up?

    BTEA is not for setting up businesses. Its Back to Education Allowance allowing people to study and retain their benefits. However, you must be progressing in qualifications in order to qualify for it.
    From the guidelines:
    The approved full-time education course must lead to a higher qualification on the National Framework of Qualifications other than that already held. It is not considered that existing graduates should have an entitlement to BTEA to pursue a course at a similar qualification level as, inter alia, this can lead to displacement of persons seeking such qualifications for the first time. Reference should be made to the National Framework of Qualifications (see appendix 3) e.g. If a person holds a Fetac level 5 qualification, they must be progressing to a level 6 qualification.
    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/OperationalGuidelines/Pages/bte_all.aspx#1.10


  • #8
    Black_Ninja
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Black_Ninja


    hdowney wrote: »
    and were you applying to do another level 5 or a higher level? how long since you did your level 5?

    I was applying for another level 5 with the vision of doing the level 6 course of the same subject next year and then going to level 7.

    Its been nearly 3 years since I done my last level 5 course but from what I can find on the net the level 5 certificate is the highest that can be obtained in that subject.

    I've wrote to the social welfare office asking them to review my application again so fingers crossed.


  • #9
    martyoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 872 ✭✭✭martyoo


    BTEA is not for setting up businesses.

    I feel like a right knob now! I was thinking of the BTWEA.


  • #10
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,695 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    cee_jay wrote: »
    BTEA is not for setting up businesses. Its Back to Education Allowance allowing people to study and retain their benefits. However, you must be progressing in qualifications in order to qualify for it.
    From the guidelines:
    The approved full-time education course must lead to a higher qualification on the National Framework of Qualifications other than that already held. It is not considered that existing graduates should have an entitlement to BTEA to pursue a course at a similar qualification level as, inter alia, this can lead to displacement of persons seeking such qualifications for the first time. Reference should be made to the National Framework of Qualifications (see appendix 3) e.g. If a person holds a Fetac level 5 qualification, they must be progressing to a level 6 qualification.
    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/OperationalGuidelines/Pages/bte_all.aspx#1.10
    Does that mean that I can;t get BTEA? I have an ordinary degree in business management. I want to go back to do a Hons Bachelor of Science (level 8) in computing. Obviously I have to start in 1st year, can I only get the BTEA when I get to level 7?


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