A student is deemed not eligible for grant funding if they are in receipt of a bursary, apart from notable exceptions, from public funds in the State, or any Member State, in respect of the approved c [..]

For grant awarding purposes, one of the main eligibility criteria. Click here Nationality criteria for further information on ‘Nationality’ requirements.

For grant eligibility purposes, any Further or Higher Education courses undertaken by an applicant (whether or not completed and/or qualification attained).

A course, offered through Institutes of Technology, that takes eighteen months to complete, part of which is on work placement. Students on such courses, who are eligible for a Maintenance Grant, are [..]

When calculating ‘reckonable income’ for a self-employed person, certain deductions, as per the Revenue Commissioner’s computations, are ‘added back’, i.e. depreciation and tax capital allowances, fin [..]

The ‘adjacent rate’ of Maintenance Grant is paid to students whose normal residence is 45km or less from the approved institution they are attending and, conversely, those whose normal residence is ov [..]

If an awarded student is unsatisfied with the determination made, they are at liberty to submit a formal SUSI Appeal.Form Appealing Your Grant Decision. If that appeal is turned down and the student i [..]

There are two classes of applicant, namely Dependent (see also ‘Mature Dependent’) and Independent. An applicant's class is defined at their first point of entry to an approved post leaving certi [..]

Student Grant Application Form.

An Approved Course is one that meets the criteria set out in the Student Support Regulations 2015, i.e. that the course is full-time, leads to a major education and training award in line with the NFQ [..]