SUSI Payment Dates 2024 – Check Eligibility, Grant Amount

Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) is a special program offering financial support in Ireland. The SUSI Scholarship provides financial aid to students from Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina to study in the United States. This year, that is, 2024, aims to provide economic development and entrepreneurship.

The four-week program provides students with opportunities like presentations, seminar discussions and readings, leadership development sessions, and group leadership activities. If the time persists, there is also a one-week study tour, which will offer insights into academic sessions and coursework.

Eligibility Criteria For SUSI  Grant

SUSI Grant Application requires certain factors determined by the following parameters:-

  1. The applicant must be Irish, EEK, EU, UK, or Swiss national or hold a certain immigrant status.
  2. The applicant must have stayed for at least three or five years in the Irish State, EEK, EU, UK, or Swiss Federation.
  3. The household income of the applicant must be below the defined bar.
  4. Applicant must be from an authorized college and from the specified course.
  5. Students applying should not be retaking the same year, and the course should advance from year to year.
  6. A stipend of €500 for eligible undergraduate students with household income in the range of €62,000 and €100,000.
  7. The students with household incomes between €55,240 and €62,000 are eligible for a 50% grant.
  8. The earnings of the grants have been increased to €6,552, more than the previous limit of €4,500.
Eligibility Criteria For SUSI  Grant
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Payment Schedule for SUSI Payments 2024

Following are the important dates for the SUSI Grant Program; the payments come every month on these scheduled dates given below:-

Payment Month For Higher Education Students For PLC Students
January 11 January 2024 18 January 2024
February 15 February 2024 22 February 2024
March 14 March 2024 21 March 2024
April 11 April 2024 18 April 2024
May  16 May 2024 23 May 2024
June _ 13 June 2024

Amount Received Through SUSI Grant

The amount received through the grant varies due to certain factors, as stated below:-

  1. The income criteria must be below the defined bar.
  2. There would be a 10% increase in the maintenance grants and €615 increase in the non-adjacent amount of grants.
  3. There is a rise in grant payments from January to May 2024.

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