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Mature student grant question?

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  • 07-12-2012 12:01pm
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    bulmersgal
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    Hi

    Sorry if this been asked before, I did search but nothing relevant came up.

    So currently I am studying in a plc college and will have a place in Tallaght IT next year in 3rd year of a 4 year course. I am living at home and the moment and am mature student with a child.

    I am moving in the new year to a new house (renting) but when I read up about the grant it says I am still accessed under my parents income.

    Is this rule fully enforced, I'm like 27 and haven't seen a penny of my parents money since I finished my leaving 9 years ago. Fair enough they both work but in **** jobs that just pay mortgage n bills with a little left over.


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,980 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    bulmersgal wrote: »
    Hi

    Sorry if this been asked before, I did search but nothing relevant came up.

    So currently I am studying in a plc college and will have a place in Tallaght IT next year in 3rd year of a 4 year course. I am living at home and the moment and am mature student with a child.

    I am moving in the new year to a new house (renting) but when I read up about the grant it says I am still accessed under my parents income.

    Is this rule fully enforced, I'm like 27 and haven't seen a penny of my parents money since I finished my leaving 9 years ago. Fair enough they both work but in **** jobs that just pay mortgage n bills with a little left over.

    Basically yes

    The grant is assessed on your income in October of the previous year

    So if you apply for a grant in 2013/2014 it will be assessed on that

    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



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    bulmersgal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭bulmersgal


    Lovely have to save up €2500 now :-( annoying as I cost the state less money by living at home and not claiming rent allowance.


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