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Spouse, civil partner or cohabitant can qualify for BTEA
You may qualify for BTEA if you are not getting a social welfare payment but your spouse/civil partner/cohabitant is getting an Increase for a Qualified Adult in their social welfare payment for you. To qualify your spouse/civil partner/cohabitant must have an entitlement to BTEA and be getting an Increase for a Qualified Adult in his/her social welfare payment for you as an adult dependant for the required amount of time - see 'Rules' below.
If you qualify for BTEA because you are an adult dependant, you will get the same social welfare payment as your spouse/civil partner/cohabitant but at the maximum standard personal rate. Your spouse/civil partner/cohabitant will keep his/her entitlement to his/her personal rate of payment. You will also qualify for the annual Cost of Education Allowance.
If you get the Back to Education Allowance your spouse/civil partner/cohabitant can still keep his/her ent
1.12.8 Relaxation of the first year of an approved course of study:
You should be able to make a case to them to get on to the BTEA, as every case is consdered on its own merits.The condition that applicants must be commencing the first year of an approved full-time course to access the BTEA is being relaxed, subject to fulfilling the other scheme conditions, to allow access after the first year of a course to:
In order to qualify for participation in the BTEA scheme an applicant must be commencing the first year of an approved course of study. Each case should be considered on its merits. The condition may be waived where there are mitigating circumstances that would make it unreasonable to expect a person to have continued the course.
- Applicants who have been granted an exemption by the college/course provider based on a previous course or on life experience.
- Applicants who had completed the earlier year(s) of the course on a part-time basis and are now unemployed.
- Applicants who are permitted by the college/course provider to proceed to the second or subsequent year of a course after having previously dropped out.
BTEA payment is not the only source of my family's income, my husband works.If a person's only source of income is a SW income, then even if that payment is above the medical card income guidelines, the HSE grant a medical card.
So if I don't have a medical card, I will have to pay the whole amount, niceSome schools/colleges may offer a waiver scheme for charges to persons holding a medical card - ask at the school administration office for details.
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