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Fee Contribution Means Test

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  • 07-08-2014 1:06am
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    Young Blood
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    Can anyone help me shine some light on this?
    wrote:
    Fee contribution means test
    The means test may be carried out on your income or your parent’s income. It will depend on whether you are an independent mature student or dependent on your parents.

    If you were ordinarily resident with your parents from October 1 of the year before the year of entry to higher education on an approved course, you are considered dependent on your parents. In this case, your income (if any) is assessed together with your parents' income(s). An allowance is made for a certain amount of your earnings outside of term-time (up to €3,809).

    Independent students are mature students aged over 23 who live separately from their parents from 1 October of the year before the year of entry to higher education on an approved course. If you are an independent student, you are assessed on your own income (and that of your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant, if applicable).

    I lived alone on October of last year which means I am classified as an Independent Student.
    wrote:
    If you were classified as a dependent student you cannot be reclassified as an independent student unless there is a 3 year break in your studies.

    This is the part I do not understand. Does this mean a dependent student in regards to 2013? If this is correct it means; if you do not qualify as an Independent mature student this year, you will not qualify as one until three years have passed?
    wrote:
    The means test for the fee contribution under the Student Grant Scheme in 2014-2015 is based on your family's reckonable income for the previous full tax year (2013). If your family’s reckonable income is over the limit set by the Department of Education and Skills you will not qualify for the fee contribution. Some social welfare payments are excluded from 'reckonable income' for the purposes of the means test - see more details on reckonable income on studentfinance.ie and also in the Student Grant Scheme 2014.

    If you or your family has had a change of circumstances after 31 December 2013, which has reduced your income permanently, your new reckonable income may be taken into account.

    If you are eligible for full assistance with the tuition fee from any other source, including sponsorship or an award, you will not qualify for the postgraduate fee contribution. If you are eligible for partial assistance, your postgraduate fee contribution will be reduced by the amount of assistance you receive.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/third_level_education/fees_and_supports_for_third_level_education/postgraduate_student_grant.html#l4500e


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