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“SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS” IS being made in progressing student grants, the Department of Education has said.
Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) is making substantial progress on the processing of grant applications and they are focused on delivery to make sure all eligible students receive their grant, said the department.
It added that SUSI has indicated it is “on target to progress all applications received to date with the necessary supporting documentation between now and the end of the year”. So far, 31,973 applications have been completed. Of these, 19,157 have been awarded or provisionally awarded a grant and 12,816 have been refused or cancelled.
SUSI has received 66,827 applications to date. Each application was pre-assessed and 12,816 were refused or cancelled. It is currently processing a further 7,754 applications, and of these, 4,494, are being checked to ensure all documentation has been submitted. The remainder are going through the final assessment procedure and SUSI expects to process these applications by the end of December.
In total, 7,231 applicants have returned incomplete documents and SUSI is in contact with them to request missing documents.
So far, 19,859 applicants have not yet returned any documents. “We estimate, based on the experience of previous years, that a large portion of these applications will not be pursued further by the applicants,” said a SUSI spokesperson.
“While there have been problems with the first year of the new system, the policy decision to establish of a single grant awarding body will serve our students better in the long run,” said a department spokesperson.
A number of measures have been put in place to address the current processing backlogs and SUSI have staffed to the level they have requested.
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I think another contract by an outsourced development team, contracted by another provider, who can consult on the other contractors contract is required. Or has ESB not done this? Recognition of the Union and pay them fairly. Outsourcing is a race to the bottom by corporations. Keep it cheap for technicians while management lick the cream off the profit’s.
@Twitruser2021: the ESB is a semi-state I’m afraid – whatever profits are made don’t go to “management”.
Existing ESB unions are poison as it is, milking the lot of us. No surprise they don’t want to recognise a new one.
@Pseud O’Nym: = naivety at its greatest
@Twitruser2021: bull one of the best paid employees in the country. Greed that is all it is. Unions = dysfunctional
@john s: get a job with them so!
What the ESB are saying is the will only negotiate with “Approved Unions “ those who the company deem appropriate . The day the employer tells the worker who can and Cannot represent them is a bad day for workers everywhere .
@Airwave81: not true, you will fine that it is the original union that won’t let employers recognise competion unions.
Why don’t the company engage in talks with the union? The union is willing to meet them on the matter but they refuse!
@Bull McCabe: I would guess the other unions don’t want a new union infringing on their patch. The official unions will want to be the only workers representatives. Management would be the same, It be a nightmare if dozens of unions popped up and they all want to negotiate separately.
Power to the people
This is a union battle, does ictu recognise this union. I knew sliptru would be involved. I hope the ESB go to the wrc. They have significant members and should be recognised..
Effectively what they are saying is we have no way to influence this union so we won’t speak to them.
@Ciaran Burke: no what they are saying is the other unions won’t let them talk to them
One of the best paid group of employees in the country with pensions to match going on strike,many large european economies have better systems in place with one union representing all company employees, multible unions representing a few thousand employees is ridiculous that no employer wants to have to deal with.
@Richard Mccarthy: The Esb don’t pay the Electrical rate so no they are not the best paid in the country .
@Terry O Shea: bull, these are probably getting more and they have a big pension
have your say