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Appendix iii


Special Rate of Maintenance Grant

For the award of a special rate of maintenance grant in respect of the 2008/09 academic year, a candidates reckonable income (for the period 1 January, 2007 to 31 December 2007, the tax year 2007) shall not exceed: -
  •  €22,3008  
  •  net of standard exclusions (as set out in Clause 1 of this Scheme)  AND
  •  net of Child Dependant Increase (C.D.I.) paid by the Department of Social and Family Affairs

As at 31 December 2008, this reckonable income must include one of the social welfare payments listed below.

LIST OF ELIGIBLE PAYMENTS

  1. SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS

    New Name Old Name
    Blind Person’s Pension  
    Carer’s Allowance  
    One Parent Family Payment
    • Deserted Wife’s Allowance
    • Lone Parent’s Allowance
    • Prisoner Wife’s allowance
    Disability Allowance  
    Farm Assist  
    Jobseeker’s Allowance (where held for 391 days or more) Unemployment Assistance
    State Pension (Non-Contributory) Old Age (Non-Contributory) Pension
    Guardian’s Payment (Non-Contributory) Orphans (Non-Contributory) pension
    Pre-retirement allowance  
    Widow’s/Widower’s (Non-Contributory) Pension  


  2. SOCIAL INSURANCE PAYMENTS

    New Name Old Name
    Carer’s Benefit  
    One Parent Family Payment Deserted Wife’s Benefit
    Invalidity Pension  
    Incapacity Supplement Unemployability Supplement
    Occupational Injuries Death Benefit (Orphan’s pension)  
    Occupational Injuries Death Benefit (pension for a widow or widower)  
    State Pension (Contributory) Old Age Contributory Pension
    Guardian’s Payment (Contributory) Orphan’s (Contributory) Allowance
    Jobseeker’s Benefit (continuous for at least 12 months) Unemployment Benefit
    Widow’s/Widower’s (Contributory) Pension  
    State Pension (Transition) Retirement Pension


  3. FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENT (FIS)

  4. DESIGNATED PROGRAMMES

    Back to Education Allowance (Second Level and Third Level Option)
    Back to Work Allowance (Employees)
    Back to Work Enterprise Allowance
    Community Employment Scheme
    Rural Social Scheme 
    FÁS Training Programmes, including Apprenticeships
    Part time job incentive scheme
    Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)
     

  5. Others

    1. In receipt of payments under the Fáilte Ireland Skills Programme equivalent to a social welfare payment;
    2. In receipt of payments under the FIT (Fastrack to IT) initiative equivalent to a social welfare payment;
    3. 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;
    4. Grant aided employees in social economy enterprises;
    5. In receipt of payments under the Senior Traveller Training Centre programmes.



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