Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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448. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of the back to education allowance can work during the summer without it affecting the person's payment on returning to education in September 2016. [9491/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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All BTEA recipients must re-establish their entitlement to an underlying qualifying payment at the beginning of each academic year in order for BTEA to be approved. Earnings from employment during the summer will not impact on the Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) payment amount if the employment is ceased before recommencing BTEA. BTEA participants who are working during the academic year will be assessed in accordance with their underlying primary payment.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.