Back to Education Allowance (BTEA)

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Protection Applicants who received their status during a course of study can now apply for BTEA and the Daily Allowance is included in the required 6/9 months.

The new guidelines on Direct provision entitlements are now available on gov.ie at

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/5afe0f-operational-guidelines-back-to-education-allowance/#criteria-and-qualifying-eligibility under the heading Protection Applicants’ entitlements to BTEA.

See section 3 (criteria and qualifying eligibility) – it’s near the end of that section.

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FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

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