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BTEA, exception to the age limit

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  • 02-08-2010 11:32pm
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    mr.fancypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Hey everyone, just wondering if anyone knows more about the exception to the age limit rule, im looking to go back to college in September and apply for the btea, but im only 20?

    any insight would be appreciated


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,067 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/back-to-education/back_to_education_allowance
    Exceptions to the age limit

    To qualify for the Back to Education Allowance, you must be at least 21 years of age (24 years of age for a third-level postgraduate course).

    However, if you are getting Jobseeker's Allowance, Jobseeker's Benefit or One-Parent Family Payment for the required period of time and aged between 18 and 20 and you have been out of the formal education system for at least 2 years you may qualify for Back to Education Allowance.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    rhonda15
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭rhonda15


    question I did a VTOS course in 2007- 2009

    does this count as formal education?

    I'm thinking of applying for the BTEA grant for this coming Sept


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