Postgrad Fees

Dougal McGuire

Hi
just wondering when will we know if were getting our postgrad fees paid for?
see both my parents are retired, would ye reckon I would have a good chance to get my full fees paid for?

VALIS

From citizensinformation.ie:

Special rates of grants for disadvantaged students
Disadvantaged students who meet a number of conditions can qualify for a special rate of maintenance grant.

Applicants must have qualified for the standard maintenance grant for the academic year 2012-2013 and total reckonable income in the tax year January to December 2011 must not be more than €22,703, net of Qualified Child Increases and standard exclusions.

For students, including mature students, who are assessed on parent(s)/guardian's income, their parent(s)/guardian must, on 31 December 2011, have been:

Claiming long-term social welfare payments, or
Claiming Family Income Supplement or
Participating in designated programmes (for example, a FÁS training programme).
These payments and programmes are listed in Schedule 2 of the Student Grant Scheme 2012 (pdf).

For students who are assessed on their own income, on 31 December 2011 the student must have been getting one of these social welfare payments or participating in a designated programme.

Postgraduate students: New postgraduate students whose means would formerly have qualified them for the special rate of student grant will now get a fee grant and a postgraduate fee contribution. They will not get a maintenance grant. Existing grant-holders will not be affected.

If that is not applicable to you, you will only be entitled to 2000 euro fee contribution max unfortunately.

Date of notification of approval for the grant will probably vary by County; I'm pretty sure I got mine quickly enough.

Annasopra

Nope - there is no difference between counties anymore. It's all done by Dublin vec