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  • 08-08-2012 9:56pm
    #1
    kulareggae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭


    Hi I am on Disability Allowance but I am starting college September. I was told by college I should change to BTEA, I have applied for the susi grant, is the grant a payment at end of year please could you clarify also if anything else I need to apply for anything else as I am quite confused


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  • #2
    Muir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Muir


    If you are going to apply for BTEA, you can only get your fees paid by the grant. You wont receive any other grant payment.


  • #3
    kulareggae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭kulareggae


    I decided to keep my allowance but Should I apply for anything else or does the Susi grant cover it?
    Thanks


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,189 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Have you contacted AHEAD for advice or the disabilities office in the College?

    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



  • #5
    kulareggae
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭kulareggae


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Have you contacted AHEAD for advice or the disabilities office in the College?
    No il ring them tomorrow thanks


  • #6
    achmairt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭achmairt


    kulareggae wrote: »
    Hi I am on Disability Allowance but I am starting college September. I was told by college I should change to BTEA, I have applied for the susi grant, is the grant a payment at end of year please could you clarify also if anything else I need to apply for anything else as I am quite confused

    Students on Disability Allowance are eligible to apply for a grant and redg fee AND also keep their Disability Allowance. You should inform your Disability Allowance section of Social Welfare that you are entering a course of study. If you go on to BTEA, you will not get a grant so it is best not to apply for BTEA. The only thing you will miss out on is the €300 book grant.


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