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Mature Student Grants?

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  • 11-12-2012 9:30am
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    deadman1972
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭


    I have just sent off my CAO application online and i am wonderting whgat to do next? Not sure what grants i should be applying for or when to apply for 2013? I am on Disability allowace last few years, living in rented accomodation.


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


    The grant applications usually don't start until May/June

    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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    deadman1972
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭deadman1972


    Yes but mango is that not leaving it too late? I mean what if you get a course and then they will not pay for it? How can i accept a course if i don't know if the back to education crowd or whoever it is wiil pay the fees etc? sorry i don't know what i am doing.


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


    Ok

    Firstly I am not 100% sure how disability allowance and btea interact. Maybe contact AHEAD and ask them

    www.ahead.ie

    Secondly the grants process will not open until the summer. If you get BTEA you need to apply for a grant separately to pay the fees. They won't start taking applications until the summer. The application process for 2012 is still happening and it's a bureaucratic disaster.

    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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