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S.I. No. 94/2023 - Student Grant Scheme 2023
Table of Provisions (43)
Statutory Text (43 Articles)
2. Carer’s Allowance
3. One Parent Family Payment
4. Jobseekers Allowance Transition
5. Deserted Wife’s Allowance
6. Disability Allowance
8. Jobseeker’s Allowance (where held for 391 days or more)*
9. State Pension (Non-Contributory)
10. Guardian’s Payment (Non-Contributory)
11. Pre-retirement allowance
12. Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil 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
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 391 days as determined by the Department of Social Protection.
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 Support Scheme (YESS), JobBridge, National Internship Scheme or 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 Support Scheme (YESS), JobBridge, National Internship Scheme or the Work Placement Experience Programme.
SCHEDULE 3
Annual rates of maintenance grant for the 2023/2024 academic year
Non-Adjacent Rate
Adjacent Rate
Special rate of maintenance
6,971
2,936
Standard rate—Full Maintenance Band 1
3,677
1,613
Standard rate—Part Maintenance Band 2
2,717
1,221
Standard rate—Part Maintenance Band 3
1,887
886
Standard rate—Part Maintenance Band 4
1,051
556
SCHEDULE 4
Maximum overall limits for a fee grant for the 2023/24 academic year
Table 1
Undergraduate Tuition Fee Element
In respect of the following courses
Maximum fee limit Full (100%) grant in respect of tuition fees
Maximum fee limit Part (50%) grant in respect of tuition fees
Approved undergraduate courses to which the Free Fees Schemes applies.
100% of the EU rate of fee
50% of the EU rate of fee
Approved undergraduate courses provided in the State to which the Free Fees Schemes does not apply.
€6,270
€3,135
Table 2
Student Contribution Element
Rate
Full (100%) grant in respect of the student contribution charge
€3,000
Part (50%) grant in respect of the student contribution charge
€1,500
Part (€500) grant in respect of the student contribution charge
€500
Table 3
Field Trip Element
[Calculation of value available towards compulsory costs]
A student or tuition student who would have qualified for 100% tuition fee element of a fee grant but for the Free Fees Schemes and was awarded a grant towards the student contribution charge.
Maximum Fee Limit
€6,270
Less
the tuition fee claimed from the State by the institution under the Free Fees Schemes
-€x,xxx
Less
Student Contribution
€3,000
Equals
maximum amount if any available towards field trip element
€y,yyy
Student or tuition student who qualifies for 100% undergraduate tuition fees or postgraduate tuition fees under the scheme of grants.
Max Fee Limit Amount
€6,270
Less
EU rate of fee applicable to the course/invoiced to the student
-€x,xxx
Equals
the maximum amount if any available towards field trip element
€y,yyy
Table 4
Postgraduate Grants
In respect of the following courses
Maximum fee limit for grant in respect of tuition fees
Postgraduate Fee Contribution
Approved postgraduate courses provided in the State or Northern Ireland.
€6,270
€4,000
The Minister for Public Expenditure 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,
7 March, 2023.
PASCHAL DONOHOE,
Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Re-form.
GIVEN under my Official Seal,
7 March, 2023.
SIMON HARRIS,
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, In-novation and Science.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(
This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation
).
This Scheme of Grant is made pursuant to powers conferred on the Minister for Higher and Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science under the
Student Support Act 2011
.
This Scheme may be cited as the Student Grant Scheme 2023.
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
10
th March,
2023.
ARRANGEMENT OF SCHEME
CONTENTS
Part 1
Preliminary and general