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Family Income Support + Grant

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  • 27-08-2015 9:49pm
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    Almen11
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Hey guys so I'm starting first year this year and I got my grant decision today and I'm kind of surprised and very disappointed because I'm living really far fro home and I'm not sure I can live on what they have awarded me! My mother is on a CE scheme and my dad is on JSA but he receives about 90 euro on top of it in the form of family income support.
    On the website they say that FIS isn't counted as reckonable income but it was exactly this that pushed me over the limit for the special rate.
    Has this ever happened to anyone else and has anyone any advice on what I should do?


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    MouseTail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭MouseTail


    Are you sure its FIS you dad is getting? You have to be working in order to get it.


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    Almen11
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭Almen11


    MouseTail wrote: »
    Are you sure its FIS you dad is getting? You have to be working in order to get it.

    Yes he gets it because my mam works over 19hours a week


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    Lamina
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Lamina


    No FIS shouldn't be counted as reckonable income. Are you sure that it was counted and there wasn't other things listed that pushed you over? Try ringing them and see what they say.


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    biddy21
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭biddy21


    Where does it tell you how much you are getting on the grant?


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    Sup08
    Registered Users Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭Sup08


    Almen11 wrote: »
    Yes he gets it because my mam works over 19hours a week

    The employed/working person is the one that gets FIS not the unemployed person.
    Are you sure you have the correct incomes.
    Remember, SUSI get their figures directly from Revenue and Social Welfare to match up what you have entered on the application form. If these figures or the type of payments differ, SUSI apply the figures they receive from Revenue and SW (higher or lower) and also the type of income.


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