Student Accommodation Financial Assistance

The application deadline for Student Accommodation Financial Assistance for the 2024/2025 academic year was Friday the 18th of October 2024 and the fund is no longer taking applications.

Student Accommodation Financial Assistance for the 2024/2025 academic year

• €600,000 has been ring-fenced for the current academic year; this is the total amount of funding available at a national level, this is not an exclusive SETU support. 
• This fund will be utilised to assist students from Traveller and Roma backgrounds and those with experience of the care system with the cost of accommodation, when living independently while attending third level education. This is a Government initiative funded via the Dormant Accounts Fund. 
• The aim is to alleviate the cost of accommodation as a barrier to accessing and progressing through higher education. 
• This is a pilot scheme for the 2024/2025 academic year, funding for subsequent years will be subject to the annual budgetary negotiations and approvals.
• Both full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students who meet the specified criteria are eligible for student accommodation assistance. The assistance awarded will be the total cost of the students rent, up to a maximum of €6,000 per academic year. 
• The student must provide proof of their rental costs regardless of whether the student resides in private rental, digs, or student specific accommodation on and off-campus. 
• If awarded this financial support, the student accommodation assistance will be paid in two instalments by EFT to the student each semester to cover their rental commitments up to a maximum total of €6,000 in the academic year 2024/25, subject to the student attending their course on a regular basis. 
• Students in receipt of the student accommodation assistance can also avail of Student Assistance Fund support in SETU.

Please note that SETU cannot guarantee that all eligible students will be supported by this fund due to budgetary constraints.

Student Accommodation Assistance Eligibility

To be eligible for the student accommodation assistance, students must be a member of one or more of the following groups: 

1. Traveller Community 
2. Roma Community 

3. Have experience of the care system between the ages of 16-18 and are not eligible for an aftercare allowance.

   Students from one or more of these categories must be living independently for the purpose of attending third level education; this includes students renting away from home during the academic year and also those students with leases covering 12 months and beyond

Application Process Details:

• The application process is now closed.
• For more information, including some very relevant and informative FAQ’s please click HERE

For any further queries, please email [email protected]