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Disability allowance/ back to education

  • 02-02-2016 7:53pm
    #1
    thepikminman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I couldn't find a suitable topic for this post.

    Anyway, my friend took a year off from college last year because of insanely bad social skills and narcolepsy. During the year off he went to apply for social welfare, but was told by a woman working there that he should apply for disability allowance instead because he has narcolepsy. He applied, and waited a long time (like 6 months) but eventually his application was accepted. Now he is back in college, and is still receiving his disability allowance payments (188/week) but doesn't get any grant. He just found out that he was supposed to change to back to education allowance because he's back in college, but he has been back since September. Is it too late for him to apply now? What is a worst-case scenario for him, could they demand all the money since September to be paid back since he should be on back to education allowance? Any suggestions about what he should do?


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