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working while on BTEA

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  • 08-09-2012 3:14am
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    toc2012
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭


    While on BTEA can I work? if so what rules am I bound by? hours/earnings etc


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    darragh o meara
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    toc2012 wrote: »
    While on BTEA can I work? if so what rules am I bound by? hours/earnings etc

    Allowed to work 19 hours a week without affecting your Btea. Not sure what the earning cap is or even if there is one.


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    Ging Ging
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭Ging Ging


    No limit on hours of work etc. as long as you fulfill your course requirement. You can also work during the summer and sign back onto BTEA the following Sept.

    From; http://www.welfare.ie/EN/OperationalGuidelines/Pages/bte_all.aspx#3.3

    "Participants may also engage in employment without affecting their personal rate of payment. Payment of the BTEA is not affected by income from any other source, e.g. earnings from part-time employment etc., but any change in the financial circumstances of the spouse/partner will effect increases for qualified adult/child dependent allowance. However, additional income will affect entitlement to Rent/Mortgage Supplement. Clients should be directed to the HSE for clarification of this issue. Any fuel allowance payments to the household may also be affected by an increase in means."

    "BTEA participants who are progressing to the next year of their course or who are progressing from second level to third level approved undergraduate qualifications will have their BTEA reinstated from the commencement of the new academic year irrespective of whether they were in receipt of an unemployment payment for the summer period."


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