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Dunno to go on BTEA or stay on Disability Allowance?

  • 11-07-2012 10:38pm
    #1
    breege57
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    I'm starting college in September and I'm not entitled to a grant as iv'e already done a level 5 course and i'm going doing another level 5.

    I am currently on disability allowance, if i move to BTEA my income wont increase. So would i bother?

    I'm sharing a house with 3 girls and rent is between 450-500 a month, which at most it will be 125 each a month, then add on bills and food. I think i'll be ok with 188 coming in each week. Or would it be to much of a struggle?

    Thanks

    :)


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


    I guess the reason you would bother is not about income but about education.

    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
    breege57
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭breege57


    mango salsa wrote: »
    I guess the reason you would bother is not about income but about education.

    Well if i don't have enough income i would be unable to stay there for my education.

    :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Nymeria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭Nymeria


    I would recommend checking with your local SW office to see if you would be even eligible for the BTEA for a level 5 course if you have already completed one. I thought (I could be wrong), that you will only get it if you are studying a level higher and not repeating the same level.

    The other thing to bear in mind is that while the BTEA is the same amount as jobseekers, it is liable to be reduced in successive budgets. They have already reduced the one off payment at the start of each college year from 500 euro to 300 euro, and a woman from my local SW office mentioned before that they are phasing this payment out. Just trying to let you know that if your rent and bills take up most of your payment and you are left with so little, that margin may well be reduced as the time goes on.

    hope it works out.


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