Written answers

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Department of Social Protection

Back to Education Allowance Eligibility

Photo of Aengus Ó SnodaighAengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered extending access to the back to education allowance for qualified adults. [7504/16]

Photo of Kevin HumphreysKevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) provides income support for jobseekers and others in receipt of certain social welfare payments that pursue courses of education at second or third level. The objective of the scheme is to raise the educational and skill levels to enable jobseekers better access to the emerging needs of the labour market in line with Government activation strategy.

The qualified adult dependent of a person in receipt of qualifying scheme payments for BTEA purposes may be approved for the Allowance provided they establish an entitlement to a qualifying scheme payment in their own right and subject to satisfying all other BTEA conditions. Periods spent in receipt of a qualified adult allowance are counted, in addition to any periods in receipt of a payment in their own right when establishing the entitlement to the Allowance.

Eligibility to BTEA does not extend to qualified adults of participants of activation schemes.

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