AQW 14441/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 10/02/2021
Answered On Date: 16/02/2021
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) why postgraduate students who graduated during December 2020 have not been included in the £500 Covid Disruption Payment; and (ii) whether she will consider extending the payment to this cohort.

Answer:

The Covid Disruption Payment is for full-time undergraduate and postgraduate,

students who are currently enrolled at Northern Ireland publicly funded Higher

Education Institutions and full-time Higher Education students at the Further

Education Colleges, in recognition of the disruption suffered by students to their

studies due to the impact of Covid-19.