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Surreal: SUSI looking for utility bill from 2007!!!

  • 10-07-2014 6:49pm
    #1
    Rewind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭


    I entered 3rd level as an independent mature student in 2008 and received free fees. So finished that and started a HDip, again as an independent mature student, last year (2013/2014). Decided it wasn't for me so dropped out an reapplied for a new one this year. However I was made make a new application. Long story short they're looking for a lease and utility from October 2007 to confirm I was an independent mature student, even though I have already being all these years.

    I don't even know where to start. There is no way in hell I can get that info, for one there was never a bill in my name back then. This seems totally bizarre and unreasonable.

    Any similar experiences?


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Have you anything at all from 2007 or 2008 to prove you were a mature student. Were you getting a County Council or VEC grant?

    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
    Rewind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Rewind


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Have you anything at all from 2007 or 2008 to prove you were a mature student. Were you getting a County Council or VEC grant?

    Hey. Thanks for the reply. Just contacted DCC so they might have something on their system. I applied to SUSI for two successive years as an independent mature student and was successful both times! I thinks its because I left the HDip last year and I'm technically a new applicant. It's a good thing I kept the the sent a soft copies of my applications each time as evidence


  • #4
    civilengineer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭civilengineer


    It makes sense as they always look for the previous year’s income !
    Contact your VEC and get a copy of the original grant ?


  • #5
    Rewind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Rewind


    civilengineer wrote: »
    It makes sense as they always look for the previous year’s income !
    Contact your VEC and get a copy of the original grant ?

    Thanks for the response. Managed to get a letter from the DCC outlining my history of grants off them as an independent mature student since 2008. One of the SUSI reps said it should be enough. Fingers crossed.


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