S.I. No. 426/2023 - Student Grant Amendment Scheme 2023
Table of Provisions (43)
Statutory Text (43 Articles)
1. Blind Pension
2. Carer’s Allowance
3. One Parent Family Payment
4. Jobseekers Allowance Transition
5. Deserted Wife’s Allowance
6. Disability Allowance
7. Farm Assist
8. Jobseeker’s Allowance (in respect of a period of 65 consecutive weeks of unemployment during which an applicant was in receipt of Jobseekers Allowance) *
9. State Pension (Non-Contributory)
10. Guardian’s Payment (Non-Contributory)
11. Pre-retirement allowance
12. Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Partner’s (Non-Contributory) Pension
13. Supplementary Welfare Allowance (where held for 15 consecutive calendar months)
Social Insurance Payments
14. Benefit Payment for 65 year olds
15. Carer’s Benefit
16. Deserted Wife’s Benefit
17. Invalidity Pension
18. Incapacity Supplement
19. Occupational Injuries Death Benefit (Orphan’s Pension)
20. Occupational Injuries Benefit — Death Benefit (Widow or Widower’s Pension)
21. State Pension (Contributory)
22. Guardian’s Payment (Contributory)
23. Jobseeker’s Benefit*
24. Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s (Contributory) Pension
25. State Pension (Transition)
Designated Programmes
26. Back to Education Allowance (Second Level and Third Level Options)
27. Back to Work Allowance (Employees)
28. Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
29. Community Employment Scheme
30. Rural Social Scheme
31. Tús Initiative
32. Gateway Scheme
33. Further Education and Training (FET) Courses, including Apprenticeships
34. Part-time job incentive scheme
35. Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)
Others
36. Foster Care and Aftercare Allowances or Adoption Maintenance Allowance where paid in respect of the applicant
37. Independent Living Allowance for Young People in Residential Care
38. Working Family Payment / Family Income Supplement (FIS)
39. In receipt of payments under the FIT (Fastrack to IT) initiative equivalent to a social welfare payment
40. Partial Capacity Benefit where the recipient has an underlying entitlement to Invalidity Pension
41. Participants on a training course approved by a Government Department, State Agency or Area Partnership and who were in receipt of an eligible payment prior to progressing to the programme
42. Grant aided employees in Community Services Programmes (formerly social economy enterprises)
* Combined periods of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Jobseeker’s Benefit and other eligible payments for purposes of meeting the prescribed period of 65 consecutive weeks of unemployment during which an applicant was in receipt of either Jobseeker’s Allowance or Jobseeker’s Benefit.
The Department of Social Protection Illness Benefit or COVID-19 Enhanced Illness Benefit or COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment or Maternity Benefit can also be used to combine periods of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Jobseeker’s Benefit provided a period of Jobseeker’s Allowance or Jobseeker’s Benefit comes directly before and directly after the period of Illness Benefit or COVID-19 Enhanced Illness Benefit or COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment or Maternity Benefit.
Periods on the Youth Employment Scheme/JobBridge, the National Internship Scheme, the Work Placement Experience Programme, can also be combined with periods on other listed eligible payments provided a period on an eligible payment comes directly before and directly after the period on the Youth Employment Scheme/JobBridge/National Internship Scheme/Work Placement Experience Programme.”
The Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform consents to the making of the foregoing Scheme.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform,
28 August, 2023.
PASCHAL DONOHOE,
Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.
GIVEN under my Official Seal,
28 August, 2023.
SIMON HARRIS,
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
8
th September,
2023.
I, SIMON HARRIS, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
section 16
of the
Student Support Act 2011
(No. 4 of 2011), and the Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 (
S.I. No 451 of 2020
), and with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, hereby make the following scheme of grants:-