Student Assistance Fund Gone?

Lionheaart

I heard the student assistance fund has been canceled, is that true?

The fund is still mentioned here on the UCD site:

http://www.ucd.ie/student_welfare.htm

What does it mean?

Agent_Orange

Hi Lionheart the SAF is still in operation I think it is an online
application process this year.Check with the access office in
your college they should be able to help.

Raphael

http://www.universityobserver.ie/2012/10/02/ucd-assistance-funds-facing-cuts/

Cliffnotes version from that article is that they've having difficulties administrating it, but the money does still exist.

Musefan

Hi,

Could someone direct me towards where the online application is. I have had a look around SIS web and cannot find it.

Thanks

Lionheaart

I'll be honest and say a student adviser told me it was cancelled.

But again, there seems to conflicting information about it.

Agent_Orange

Musefan contact the access office in your college as they run the
application process internally. Lionheaart I would double check
as I received an email from my college regarding the SAF today.

Lionheaart

I was told today that the student assistance fund has been absorbed into the student welfare fund.

This was done in relation to the above mentioned article were there was no one available to administer the fund (SAF).

So maybe there is an issue here.

I think getting anything from the Welfare fund is a lot harder than getting anything from the assistance fund.

With the assistance fund you only had to meet certain criteria but with the welfare fund there is a committee that somehow arrives at a decision as to whether someone gets money or not.

Lionheaart

Agent Orange, what university do you go to? If I may ask.

I'm in UCD.