The student grant awarding body, SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), has so far paid grants to 39,000 students for this academic year 2013/2014. Of these, 20,000 are first time applicants and 19,000 are students who have renewed their grants with SUSI.
Because of improvements to its system, SUSI has been running more efficiently and on schedule. 43,000 students – 23,000 first-time applicants and 20,000 renewal students - have already been notified that they have been awarded grants, compared to just 6,000 this time last year. The 4,000 students who have already been awarded grants and are still to be paid will receive their grants as soon as their colleges confirm that they are registered and attending and when students provide their bank details.
All eligible students who met SUSI’s priority processing deadlines and have submitted all the documents required to support their applications have now been awarded, in line with SUSI’s three-month timeline which began on 5th August. Those applicants that supplied documents within deadline and have been asked subsequently for additional information are expected to receive notification of their grant status within four weeks of providing the information.
Processing continues
SUSI expects to award a total of 60,000 grants for this academic year – 40,000 of them to new applicants - and processing continues on those applications which came in after SUSI’s priority processing deadlines. Students can follow the progress of late applications on the online tracker system on https://www.grantsonline.ie/eseries/
Payments
Additional payment dates have been put in place to ensure that students get paid as early as possible.
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Payment dates The earliest that payments could be made was during October, when colleges began confirming that students were attending their courses. The earliest payment dates were:
· 18th October for first-time university and college applicants · 25th October for post-leaving certificate students. Those students who were not included on the first payment runs will start to be paid (including back payments) on one of the subsequent payment dates, starting 1st November and running weekly then fortnightly. Subsequent maintenance payments will be made monthly over nine months. More details on payments can be found on www.susi.ie |
Final Course Acceptance Forms
Students who have been provisionally awarded a grant and who have been asked to return a completed Final Course Acceptance (FCA) form should do so as quickly as possible. The form can be completed and submitted in a matter of minutes online at www.susi.ie Once this document is in, the award can be finally confirmed and SUSI can notify the relevant college that an applicant has been awarded a grant. The college can then confirm that the student is registered and attending. Only then can a grant be paid.
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Call for documents
SUSI is still awaiting documents from 18,000 students, of whom 7,000 have not submitted any documents to support their applications. Last year 10,000 students decided not to proceed with their applications. For those who are proceeding with their applications, SUSI is calling, in particular, for the following documents to be returned:
- · For the
self-employed and farmers, a Notice of Assessment of Income for 2012 from
Revenue is required. Without this document, their applications cannot be finally
assessed.
· For those applicants who have applied as independent students, the correct documents to prove independent living should be sent in.
· Proof that applicants have been resident in Ireland or another EU country for three out of the last five years.
Those students who have not returned any documents to SUSI this year are being asked to advise the SUSI helpdesk to cancel their applications, if they are not proceeding with them.
The SUSI helpline number is 0761 087874. Email: support@susi.ie
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