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Will SUSI be here next year?

  • 23-05-2014 2:59pm
    #1
    LiverpoolLad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭


    Basically I'm contemplating taking a year off to work as I need to save money for college. My parents told me that the government are thinking of abolishing SUSI next year ( I think they just did that to scare me into putting my all into the leaving), meaning it is very unlikely I will be able to go to college. My Dad is unemployed but my mum works. At the moment my brother goes to college and gets €3,000 a year. If I work, and say I earn €10,000, will that mean I'm ineligible for the grant. My cousin earned €3,000 in the summer and his grant went down by a few hundred (compared to his bro).

    My elder bro and my younger sister will both be in college next year and with me that makes 3. It will be a struggle to afford all 3 of us to go and that is why I want to work for a year, but if I lose a grant (potentially worth €12,000) for €10,000 it won't be worth my time.

    So I want to know if there is any talk of getting rid of SUSI, and if I work will I lose out on the grant. Help would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    No talk of abolishing SUSI

    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



  • #3
    LiverpoolLad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭LiverpoolLad95


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    No talk of abolishing SUSI

    Thats the Hope, but the question is serious, will it?


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    LiverpoolLad95 wrote: »
    Thats the Hope, but the question is serious, will it?

    I cant take the question seriously. Why on earth would the government spend thousands setting susi up and then get rid of it.

    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



  • #5
    Il Trap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Il Trap


    If your going to college at all depends on receiving financial assistance and you have a chance of getting something from SUSI this coming year then do it. They are notoriously difficult to deal with (their systems, not their helpdesk staff). The process can take months and months. Get your documentation together and get cracking on an application now. If you leave it a year its possible they could change the criteria and you mightn't be eligible then. And make sure you make copies of every single document/letter you send them.

    And no, SUSI is unlikely to be going anywhere soon.


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