Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 July 2018
512. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce an exemption on overtime on Student Universal Support Ireland applications in the interests of fairness for applicants that have parents availing of overtime to counter third-level costs. [33282/18]
View answerThe assessment of means under my Department's Student Grant Scheme is based on gross income from all sources.
However, Article 22(5)(e) of the Student Grant Scheme 2018 provides that overtime payments may be excluded from the calculation of reckonable income for student grant purposes where it is established by the applicant to the satisfaction of the awarding authority that the overtime is non-recurring.
