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Back to Education Allowance

  • 20-10-2014 2:52pm
    #1
    ShaShaBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭


    Just a quick query, if you have been claiming a social welfare payment and you were fully eligible for BTEA and then became someone's adult dependant on their claim, would you still be entitled to BTEA or would you only qualify if your partner was also eligible?


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  • #2
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    You'd qualify only if your partner was eligible also.

    1.14.1 BTEA Eligibility to both partners:

    The Qualified Adult Dependent of a person who has an existing entitlement to the Back to Education Allowance can qualify for BTEA in their own right for the duration of an approved course of study. This provision applies to all BTEA relevant social welfare payments where there is an increase in respect of a Qualified Adult Dependent in payment.

    To qualify under this option, the applicant must be a Qualified Adult Dependent (for the required qualifying period i.e. 3 months for SLO, 9 months for TLO (2 years in case of IB recipients)) of a person who satisfies the eligibility criteria for participation in the BTEA scheme immediately prior to the commencement of the approved course of study.

    The Qualified Adult Dependent, in such cases, is entitled to the IQA rate of the relevant Social Welfare payment that the claimant is in receipt of.

    In effect, this provision allows the Social Welfare claimant and his/her Qualified Adult Dependent to qualify independently for participation in the Back to Education Allowance Scheme.

    Note: Periods spent in receipt of a Qualified Adult Allowance may not be added to periods in receipt of a personal rate of social welfare payment in order to link a claim to qualify for Back to Education .     http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Back-to-Education-Allowance-Scheme.aspx


  • #3
    ShaShaBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Balagan wrote: »
    You'd qualify only if your partner was eligible also.

    Yikes, might have messed up my chance at my honours degree :confused:


  • #4
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    ShaShaBear wrote: »
    Yikes, might have messed up my chance at my honours degree :confused:

    Have you thought about separating your claim at all to give you the 9 months
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  • #5
    ShaShaBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Gatling wrote: »
    Have you thought about separating your claim at all to give you the 9 months

    My partner's on a course at the minute so he gets all of our money into the bank and is no longer paid by social welfare (their words). So I don't know if I can even do that now. He lost 144 euro in the first week of the course because SW and the people running the course have been bickering over who owed it to him so I don't want to rock the boat any further.


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