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Child Dependency Allowance

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  • 08-12-2011 9:53pm
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    Superdry06
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    What is the outcome in this shocking scenario..

    A college student aged 19 is receiving a VEC grant for college which pays for the fees and gives an allowance every month which works out at e60 a week roughly. The student's mother receives an allowance for being a single parent with a dependent child in full time education.

    All seems fine so far until.. The single mother doesn't give a penny to her child by the way of money for day to day needs, doesn't put food on the table, no money given for cloths etc. The child goes to relatives and begs for money to get her by. When relations between herself and her mother got out of hand she got the VEC Grant cut on the child and as a result the college student cannot continue with college next year as she is unable to afford it.

    What can the student do? What are her entitlements?
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    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    The student needs to look in to proving he'she is emancipated from the parent. The citizens information center might be able to help here. There are some EU schemes to help students like this, the student union can help here.

    The main thing is to get the ball rolling ASAP before next year.


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    achmairt
    Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭achmairt


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    The student needs to look in to proving he'she is emancipated from the parent. The citizens information center might be able to help here. There are some EU schemes to help students like this, the student union can help here.

    The main thing is to get the ball rolling ASAP before next year.

    How did the mother get the grant cut? She can appeal the grant under exceptional circumstances to her VEC. There is an appeal process she can go through


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