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Financial Support options ?

  • 17-01-2012 12:53pm
    #1
    TheBlaaMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, I've had a quick scan of the existing threads, but still looking for advise....

    My son is away in college and we are trying to financially support him through his course but this is getting very difficult due to short-time working and reduced hours for both of us. He has had to take out a student loan to get thru the year in terms of accommodation costs etc.

    As a family our earnings slightly exceed the threshold for any VEC/local authority grants, as far as I can see, having check at the start of her year and again today. We have two other secondary school aged kids, mortgage etc etc.

    He is effectively living away from home and trying to be self-sustaining but it is severely stretching all of us......so to my question: Is there any form of financial assistance available to us that I may not have considered?

    Thanks in advance for any pointers...


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  • #2
    Agent_99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Agent_99


    Most colleges run a student assistant fund that he could apply to or hardship fund he needs to speak to his student union welfare officer.


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