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Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 13 February 2014

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Questions (102)

Jonathan O'Brien

Question:

102. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason married persons under 23 years of age who reside with their spouses in a separate home from their parents are still assessed on their parents' means for the purposes of Student Universal Support Ireland grant applications. [7210/14]

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Written answers

For student grants purposes, a student may be assessed as an independent student if he/she has attained the age of 23 on the 1st of January of the year of first entry to an approved post leaving certificate course or an approved higher education course, or of re-entry to an approved course following a break in studies of at least three years, and is not ordinarily resident with his/her parents from the previous 1 October. Otherwise he/she would continue to be assessed on the basis of his/her parents' income.

When assessing the means of students other than independent mature students, the scheme specifies that parental income must be taken into account.

I have no plans at present to change the current arrangements.

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