75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the higher education grant system in which a student’s whole family income is assessed for awarding of a higher education grant at the full non-adjacent rate, but when the student’s family passes the reckonable income limit for receipt of the special rate of grant but the family income is received by a non-biological parent of the student, and the biological parent is unable to receive a social welfare payment in their own right, the student in financial need is unable to receive the special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14830/11]

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75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the higher education grant system in which a student’s whole family income is assessed for awarding of a higher education grant at the full non-adjacent rate, but when the student’s family passes the reckonable income limit for receipt of the special rate of grant but the family income is received by a non-biological parent of the student, and the biological parent is unable to receive a social welfare payment in their own right, the student in financial need is unable to receive the special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14830/11]

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1. 9 June 2011

   Higher Education Grants

   75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the higher education grant system in which a student’s whole family income is assessed for awarding of a higher education grant at the full non-adjacent rate, but when the student’s family passes the reckonable income limit for receipt of the special rate of grant but the family income is received by a non-biological parent of the student, and the biological parent is unable to receive a social welfare payment in their own right, the student in financial need is unable to receive the special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14830/11]

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