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Are tuition fees free

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  • 29-08-2016 3:50pm
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    Berberis
    Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭


    Looking for someone to clarify my position re tuition fees and if they are free or not.
    Youngest goes to college next summer and am looking into what costs/grants might be.
    Rang the susi office but they could not give a definite answer.
    I looked at the eligibity section on susi and it says with our income that we will be entitled to 50% tuition fees and 100% student contribution.
    So I take that if our child does a 4 yr undergraduate course in science. That she will get the €3000 student contribution paid but will have to pay 50% of the tuition fees.
    But when I look at Student Finance.ie there is something about Free fees initiative and she meets the criteria for that I believe.
    So with that in mind will she have to pay any tuition fees.
    Or am I missing something here


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    Berberis
    Registered Users Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Berberis


    Think I have it sorted folks.
    Looking at SUSI section on reckonable income, I should not have been including my pension contributions.
    So looks like our total reckonable income will be just under the band for where she should be entitled to

    25% rate of maintenance
    + Field trip element
    +100% tuition fees or
    100% student contribution.

    Don't envisage any pay rises coming our way so at least that's one less worry for next year. Unless they change the thresholds between now and then


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