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PLC COURSE/NO JSA

  • 16-06-2014 07:30PM
    #1
    MonicaBing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 611 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks, am looking for some clarity on behalf of my neighbour and her kid. He's 19 and was hoping to move out in the next month or so, he got a plc course place that starts in September and he's been on JSA since last September. They told him today that if he takes up the course he will not be entitled to JSA any longer, that the grant he has applied for is all he can get, whats worrying them is, if he doesnt get the grant in time (September) he will have nothing to live on.
    Would he be able to claim a different allowance by living on his own or does it just not matter?

    He's out of school 1 year so cannot claim BTEA as he has to be 22.

    Any advice for them?


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  • #2
    upinthesky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭upinthesky


    MonicaBing wrote: »
    Hi folks, am looking for some clarity on behalf of my neighbour and her kid. He's 19 and was hoping to move out in the next month or so, he got a plc course place that starts in September and he's been on JSA since last September. They told him today that if he takes up the course he will not be entitled to JSA any longer, that the grant he has applied for is all he can get, whats worrying them is, if he doesnt get the grant in time (September) he will have nothing to live on.
    Would he be able to claim a different allowance by living on his own or does it just not matter?

    He's out of school 1 year so cannot claim BTEA as he has to be 22.

    Any advice for them?

    Payment for the grant does not start until october,and at that the most you can get is 336 euro a month.http://www.susi.ie/What-type-of-funding-could-I-receive-/PLC-Students.aspx


  • #3
    Uepped
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Uepped


    MonicaBing wrote: »
    Would he be able to claim a different allowance by living on his own

    No


  • #4
    upinthesky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭upinthesky


    My advice would be hang on to his JSA until he can claim BTEA, it's a pain, but it looks like the only way i'm afraid. Unless he can find a part time job, which will help him trough collage.


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