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Parents benefits while in education

  • 11-11-2012 6:18pm
    #1
    Diamond_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭


    Out of curiosity, if a girl in full time education with no income gets pregnant, is she entitled to any benefits apart from child benefit once she has the baby?


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  • #2
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    Diamond_Ninja wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, if a girl in full time education with no income gets pregnant, is she entitled to any benefits apart from child benefit once she has the baby?

    Yes. When the baby is born and she has obtained a birth certificate, she could apply for the One Parent Family payment even if she is still in school and living at home with her family. It would be means tested against any earnings of the mother or maintenance paid to her by the baby's father. She would not be eligible for it were she to be living with a partner. This and other helpful info at this site. http://www.teenparents.ie/iopen24/defaultarticle.php?cArticlePath=18_36


  • #3
    Equality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Equality


    Yes. There are girls of 16 in secondary school getting lone parents.

    There are women/men of 40 doing a doctorate getting lone parents.

    Education is no bar to lone parents, as the requirement is that you be a single parent and pass a means test.


  • #4
    irishsabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭irishsabs


    if a teenager they can also avail of financial and emotional assistance from their local teen parent support programme (often help towards childcare costs) :)


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