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Grant rejection after previous acceptance

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  • 12-12-2013 7:29pm
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    WilhelmFink
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I applied for the grant this year, being reasonably confident I would qualify, though have been rejected.

    I did a level 6 course last year & was provisionally awarded. Obviously couldn't avail due to the course level.

    I'm doing a lvl 8 now, & my grant has been refused due to reckonable income (€130,000 p.a. apparently) even though my Ma's hours have literally been cut in half! :confused:

    I have the appeal form in, just waiting pulling my hair out! How likely is it I'll have it overturned? It seems like it's a simple miscalculation, but I'm going through all the "what-ifs?" & it's driving me mental. Is it a common occurrence to be accepted then refused? I don't see anyway I can continue without it. My college experience has been ruined enough already, I'm at wits end

    Thanks for your time
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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,038 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    If there is a change in circumstances in income then state that in the appeal

    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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    WilhelmFink
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭WilhelmFink


    Everything was up to date, income is ~47k, limit is 54k or thereabouts

    There's maintenance payments coming from the income but they're adding them, rather than taking away?

    We filled in the application the exact same, using the previous year's print out, only changing the figures that did change


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    WilhelmFink
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭WilhelmFink


    Check the status, just returned as "unsuccessful"

    Can anyone please explain to me how such a situation occurs?


    I went into my course fairly confident I would qualify, having done so the previous year.
    The only thing that's changed financially is that my mother has half the hours she had last year.


    I really don't know what to do, if it was likely I wasn't going to get it I would've deferred & saved up for the year. But now I can't really drop out & reapply next year can I!


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