Guidance SUSI Grant Scheme SUSI Grant Scheme SUSI Grant Scheme Students attending fulltime higher education undergraduatepostgraduate courses Level 69 and fulltime Further Education PLC courses Level 56 can get financial support through the ID: 814536
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Guidance - SUSI
Lesson 10
Slide2Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
Students attending full-time higher education undergraduate/postgraduate courses (Level 6-9) and full-time Further Education PLC courses (Level 5-6) can get financial support through the
means-tested
Student Grant Scheme
.
The Student Grant is made up of 2 components:
A Maintenance Grant … towards living costs
A Fee Grant towards fees and cost of essential trips
i.e. Fees for Arts Galway €3000 Student Contribution plus €224 Student Levy
In general, if you qualify for a maintenance grant you will also qualify for whatever elements of a fee grant applies to your situation. However, if you don’t qualify for a maintenance grant..…you might still qualify for a 50% partial fees grant and or 50% student contribution grant.
Slide3Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
The Maintenance Grant is the only funding available to Undergraduate Students pursuing approved courses outside the Irish State….it travels with you to …for example…Scotland
.
Grant rates for qualifying students vary
according to a number of factors including: household income, family size and whether the student's college is close to their permanent residence. In other words
, it is '
means tested
'
.
Means Test
The means test for a student grant in 2017-2018 is based on your family's gross income for the previous full tax year (2016), unless you, or your family, have had a change of circumstances (which is likely to be permanent) since 31 December 2016 - your changed circumstances may be taken into account.
Slide4Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
Reckonable income for a student grant is gross income from all sources
.
Some social welfare payments are excluded from 'reckonable income' for the purposes of student grants. If you were ordinarily resident with your parents from October 1 of the year before the year of entry to the course, you are considered dependent on your parents and your income (if any) is assessed together with your parents' income(s
).
An allowance is made for your earnings outside of term-time (up to €4,500). Outside term time is counted as 2 weeks at Christmas, 2 weeks at Easter and 12 weeks during the summer months of June, July and August. (Holiday pay earned outside these periods may also be allowed by the grant awarding authority on receipt of a letter from the school/college confirming the exact dates of term).
Slide5Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
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SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
Slide7Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
RATES of PAYMENT
Changes in Maintenance Grant Rates take effect in January each year. The rates for 2016/17 are given on page 1. Note that you can qualify for a partial fee grant even if you do not qualify for a maintenance grant
.
Adjacent and non-adjacent rates
For students who live 45 kilometres or less from the college being attended, the adjacent rate of maintenance grant is payable. This rate applies to all students living within this distance, including all mature students, both dependent and independent. The non-adjacent rate applies to everyone else.
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SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
Grant Payments
Grant Award Payments are made as follows
:
Maintenance Grants:
In three or nine monthly instalments into your own bank account by EFT (Electronic Fund Transfer
).
Fee Grants:
Directly to the college/institution you will attend, on your behalf, once the college has confirmed your registration as a student.
Slide9Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
NB:
Before making an application, students are encouraged to refer to the
General Criteria
and to use the
Ready Reckoner
provided on the SUSI website.
The
eligibility reckoner is provided by SUSI to assist students in deciding whether they should apply for a student grant.
It
provides a quick indication of eligibility for grant funding based on the answers given to 10 questions without completing and submitting a full online grant application.
Go
to
https://susi.ie/eligibility-reckoner/
Slide10Guidance – SUSI Grant Scheme
SUSI Grant Scheme:
SUSI Grant Scheme
NOTE for ALL CAO Applicants
If
you have allowed CAO (Central Applications Office) to share your information with SUSI, CAO will inform SUSI of this and will confirm details of your chosen course to SUSI when you have accepted a CAO place offer.
Check
the SUSI Grant Scheme check box in you CAO Application on 5
th
May if you have not already done so.