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Back To Education Allowance/ Rent allowance

  • 09-10-2011 2:48pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I started a degree at the beginning of September and am getting back to education allowance into my account weekly. I have been recieving rent allowance for the past 6 months but I have to collect that each week at the post office. I have classes from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Could you tell me is there anyway at all I could have CWO put the rent allowance in to bank seeing as the BTEA is going there each week? The post office is a 35 min walk from the college and I'll be going on placement in November and I won't be able to collect it then. Would greatly appreciate advice as a trip to the CWO would mean I'd have to miss a lecture or two! Thanks!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭OakeyDokey


    My sister is on the same payments and she is receiving both payments in her bank account, rent allowance isn't paid by the Social Welfare so you'll have to ring the Health Board about it or call into your local Health Center. If you explain your situation I can't see them saying no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭starflake


    Thanks a mill for that I'll call them tomorrow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Let me know how it goes because my CWO told me to lump it and won't give me any alternatives to skipping class to collect.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 nearlytherenow


    starflake wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I started a degree at the beginning of September and am getting back to education allowance into my account weekly. I have been recieving rent allowance for the past 6 months but I have to collect that each week at the post office. I have classes from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Could you tell me is there anyway at all I could have CWO put the rent allowance in to bank seeing as the BTEA is going there each week? The post office is a 35 min walk from the college and I'll be going on placement in November and I won't be able to collect it then. Would greatly appreciate advice as a trip to the CWO would mean I'd have to miss a lecture or two! Thanks!

    Hi Starflake, I dont mean to be nosy but could you tell me what your circumstances are presently as I was thinking about going back and doing a degree but didnt think I would get BTEA and R/A ?? thanks hun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Hi Starflake, I dont mean to be nosy but could you tell me what your circumstances are presently as I was thinking about going back and doing a degree but didnt think I would get BTEA and R/A ?? thanks hun

    You need to be in receipt of rent allowance before you start to receive BTEA and you will be allowed to retain it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭starflake


    Hi, They said they wouldn't give it to me via bank account because they need to be able to monitor when people collect it. The best they can offer me is change of post office to collect it Saturday mornings. I'll have to get a lift back to my home town each saturday whilst on placement in November! Oh well! Worth the try anyway! Thanks for advice!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Yeah that's pretty much what they told me too =/


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


    starflake wrote: »
    Hi, They said they wouldn't give it to me via bank account because they need to be able to monitor when people collect it. The best they can offer me is change of post office to collect it Saturday mornings. I'll have to get a lift back to my home town each saturday whilst on placement in November! Oh well! Worth the try anyway! Thanks for advice!

    If it is causing that much difficulty for you to collect it, it should be available to you through your bank account.
    From the BTEA Guidelines http://www.welfare.ie/EN/OperationalGuidelines/Pages/bte_all.aspx#3.1:
    Back to Education Allowance is paid on a weekly basis. Participants are requested to supply details of their bank account and payment of the allowance may be made by Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT). Other methods of payment may include Electronic Information Transfer (EIT) or postdraft (PDT). Exception is Incapacity Supplement which is by cheque.
    Perhaps put your request in writing to the Manager/supervisor of the hatch you deal with, stating how difficult it is for you to collect at the PO, and request payment to your bank account?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    cee_jay wrote: »
    If it is causing that much difficulty for you to collect it, it should be available to you through your bank account.
    From the BTEA Guidelines http://www.welfare.ie/EN/OperationalGuidelines/Pages/bte_all.aspx#3.1:

    Perhaps put your request in writing to the Manager/supervisor of the hatch you deal with, stating how difficult it is for you to collect at the PO, and request payment to your bank account?

    Think the rent allowance was what he meant, they won't pay that into the bank account for students - we have to collect it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Lugh Ildanach


    As another poster suggested above you should put your request in writing, citing the difficulty you have in collecting it. If they refuse, ask for the reasons in writing and then ask for the decision to be reviewed by someone more senior. If this doesn't work, then you could contact the Ombudsman. There is no reason that students shouldn't get paid into their bank account if they are having difficulty collecting it, especially as they get their BTEA that way.

    You could contact your students union, a local unemployed support/resource group or the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (01 856 0088) for assistance, or perhaps your local TD.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭starflake


    Thanks so much for the help guys, I'll give this a go


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