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SUSI Fees

  • 08-09-2012 9:10pm
    #1
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭


    I am starting college on Monday. I will be getting the BTEA allowance. I have already registered pending the awarding of the grant to cover my fees.

    My problem is I'm not certain if I will get my fees covered by SUSI.

    They want evidence of Independent living since last October. I lived at home with my parents for part of last year and can only provide evidence of Independent living from January 18th of this year.
    Is it set in stone that it has to be from October 2011 or have I any chance?
    I will have to try to defer my place if I am not awarded the grant.

    Anyone else in a similar position or have any idea how my application might be treated?


Comments

  • #2
    murpolopoliss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭murpolopoliss


    I am also applying on a grant and ive been asked for certain things which i dont have and dont seem relavant in your case i would ring them and explain that you have been living away since the start of the year and theyll prob just ask you for proof


  • #3
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    murpolopoliss wrote: »
    I am also applying on a grant and ive been asked for certain things which i dont have and dont seem relavant in your case i would ring them and explain that you have been living away since the start of the year and theyll prob just ask you for proof



    I rang them when I was filling out the online application. They told me to explain this in the section at the end of the application that I had been living alone since january which I did.

    They then wrote to me asking for proof that I lived independently since October 2011. I sent them back proof that i have been living alone since January.

    What I am asking is if anyone has any idea if this will be good enough for them.


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    You do need to have been living as an independent student in October 2011. That is the rules. I'm not sure how flexible they are but I don't think you will get the grant to be honest.

    http://www.studentfinance.ie/downloads/1339418623/Student_Grant_Scheme_2012.pdf
    (3) In this scheme an “independent student” means a mature student who did not ordinarily reside with his or her parents, or either of them, from 1 October of the year before the first point of entry to an approved post leaving certificate course or an approved higher education course or re-entry to an approved course

    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
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    mango salsa wrote: »
    You do need to have been living as an independent student in October 2011. That is the rules. I'm not sure how flexible they are but I don't think you will get the grant to be honest.

    http://www.studentfinance.ie/downloads/1339418623/Student_Grant_Scheme_2012.pdf

    Ridiculous really, I'm nearly 30 and have been living away from home since I was 17 apart from for 7 or 8 months in 2011.

    Don't know what I'm going to do.


  • #6
    Muir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Muir


    It is the rule but if they refuse you I would personally appeal on the grounds that your circumstances have changed since last year. I hope they are flexible & you do get it.


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