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# SUSI

This year
2023
‘Significant’ increases to student grants expected in tomorrow’s Budget
It’s understood the payments will increase by over €300, meaning the highest student grant will rise from €6,971 to €7,313.
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Oct 9th 2023, 6:30 AM
Last year
2022
Simon Harris plans to 'overhaul' student grant system
The minister is bringing proposals to the Cabinet today.
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Updated
May 3rd 2022, 1:00 PM
Student maintenance grants to increase by €200 as income threshold for help rises by €1k
The grant system is open for renewals today.
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Mar 10th 2022, 8:28 AM
All time
Review of student grants to examine support for people who move out of home for college
Grants for part time students and how Ireland compares internationally will also be examined.
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Dec 14th 2020, 11:29 AM
Students should have rents refunded in event of second lockdown, says higher education minister
Simon Harris also defended the fact that college fees would remain the same, even as courses move online.
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Aug 31st 2020, 11:06 AM
Student grants: Barring orders will no longer be accepted as proof that parents are separated
Barring orders were included on a list of acceptable documentation students could use to prove their parents were separated.
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Dec 5th 2019, 6:30 AM
Due a student grant? Applications open today
The national awarding body is expecting an increase in applications.
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Apr 5th 2018, 6:15 AM
20,000 students are still waiting for their grant applications to be processed
…but most of them haven’t submitted all the necessary documentation.
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Nov 30th 2015, 6:10 AM
Student denied grant may have to drop out of college for third time in four years
Ennis-raised Raymond, 21, says he feels abandoned after his latest Susi application was rejected earlier this year.
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Oct 5th 2015, 6:05 AM
If you get this email about student grants, don't click the link... It's a scam
The students grants body says a number of people have received the email.
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Aug 14th 2015, 12:50 PM
With one day until the college grant deadline the SUSI website is back up and running
Head of communications with Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) Graham Doyle says that all applicants should now be able to access their website.
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Jul 31st 2015, 5:50 PM
Taxpayers could end up footing €4.1m bill for student grant overpayment
The Department of Education has apologised for the error.
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Jun 11th 2015, 12:37 PM
Postgraduate SUSI applicant? Let’s hope you were never hardworking or homeless
I worked full-time during my full-time undergraduate degree; in 2007 my mother and I became homeless. Yet I am not deemed eligible for a full postgraduate grant.
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Feb 26th 2015, 8:00 PM
Opinion: I had to leave home and become independent at 18 – but SUSI won't recognise that
The grant is supposed to be there for people like me – people who can’t survive in college without it. But I don’t fit into SUSI’s picture of what a student is.
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Nov 12th 2014, 1:52 PM
Student finance body SUSI has paid out 11,000 more grants than this time last year
There are around 19,000 students still awaiting payments.
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Oct 31st 2014, 4:18 PM
Howlin wants to know what you think about public bodies sharing data
A public consultation process has been announced ahead of the publication of the Data-Sharing and Governance Bill.
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Aug 3rd 2014, 7:30 AM
Are you eligible for a student grant? SUSI is open for applications...
You can apply for the grant online.
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May 27th 2014, 10:08 PM
SUSI set up special unit to urgently reassess 65 students
The students were previously informed that the authority make ‘seek to recover’ their grants, if they are not reassessed.
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Jan 25th 2014, 9:45 AM
SUSI restores grant funding for 39 dental nursing and hygiene students
Questions had been raised about the eligibility of dental nursing and hygiene students at UCC and Trinity.
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Jan 20th 2014, 9:47 PM
SUSI may 'seek to recover' 65 postgraduate grants
The grants were received in error due to a combination of mis-assessment by SUSI and the forms being completed incorrectly, and the students can apply to be re-assessed.
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Jan 19th 2014, 10:30 AM
Column: Operation Emigration – is the Government trying to give us the shove?
High youth unemployment, education cuts, and JobBridge… am I the only one thinking the Government is trying to get rid of us?
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Jan 9th 2014, 7:30 PM
SUSI: Decisions have been made on all completed student grant applications
In its latest progress report, the awarding body has confirmed it’s reached the finalisation stage for grants two months faster than the last academic year.
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Nov 30th 2013, 7:00 AM
Student denied a grant by SUSI, despite being €7,600 below income threshold
A Sinn Féin councillor says that he had to write to SUSI to explain that €46,661 is less than €54,240.
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Nov 21st 2013, 11:34 AM
Over 90 per cent of students awarded grants have been paid say SUSI
A total of 43,000 students have a grant decision at this point compared to 6,000 students at this time last year.
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Nov 1st 2013, 10:45 AM
Some 3,000 students have had their grant refused or cancelled
In its latest update, SUSI says it is more than two months ahead of where it was this time last year in processing grant applications.
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Sep 27th 2013, 7:15 AM
Students were "put through the mill" by SUSI
The Ombudsman is dealing with more than 50 complaints from third level students about the new grant-allocating body SUSI.
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Sep 26th 2013, 6:30 AM
SUSI 'working closely' with the Ombudsman on student grant complaints
A total of 55 cases of complaints against the grant system were accepted by the Ombudsman with 34 of them still open.
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Sep 25th 2013, 2:30 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Good morning! Here are nine things you want to know as you start your day.
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Sep 25th 2013, 8:37 AM
Almost 8,000 applicants turned down for grant by SUSI
Around 61,500 applications have been assessed by SUSI – and of these, around 40,000 students will end up getting a grant.
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Sep 5th 2013, 10:13 PM
Ruairi Quinn considers cutting grants; students say ‘don’t even think about it’
The Union of Students in Ireland say they are “ready and equipped” to fight any attempt to cut student grants.
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Aug 18th 2013, 8:04 PM
Student grant applications 'being assessed on schedule'
Some 82,000 applications were received by the deadline earlier this month but SUSI are still accepting them.
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Aug 14th 2013, 3:00 PM
59,000 new grant applications received by SUSI ahead of deadline
SUSI said today that they are still accepting applications and that delays in processing seen last year are not expected to be repeated.
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Aug 6th 2013, 11:39 AM
Student 'waiting nearly a year' for SUSI grant decision
The Irish student, who is studying in the UK, said he still has not been given news on a decision about his grant application.
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Aug 3rd 2013, 8:30 AM
Here Is What Happened Today: Friday
Everybody’s talking about the funeral of the Chada brothers, the SUSI grant system and a worldwide travel alert for US citizens.
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Aug 2nd 2013, 10:03 PM
US to close embassies on Sunday over unspecified security concerns
The United States would not specify the threat or say which embassies will be closed.
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Aug 2nd 2013, 10:35 AM
SUSI: More staff, less bureaucracy, prioritised payments
The head of operations at SUSI said that the students grants scheme has undergone a number of improvements.
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Jul 29th 2013, 9:28 AM
Heatwave, hepatitis and holiday: The week in numbers
Plus: how many 1 cent and 2 cent coins were minted in Ireland in the last eight years (and may soon be obsolete)?
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Jul 20th 2013, 7:30 PM
SUSI affair was 'chaos' says Mary Lou McDonald
Eamon Gilmore says that he cannot guarantee that third-level grants will be paid before Christmas, but says that ‘lessons have been learned’.
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Jul 18th 2013, 1:58 PM
Students can complain to the Ombudsman over grant problems
Some 400 application appeals are still outstanding, but the body handling grant applications says that it is ‘confident’ that mistakes won’t be repeated.
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Jul 18th 2013, 9:36 AM
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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Jun 19th 2013, 4:48 PM
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