Students overpaid €4m in grant money by SUSI

Just €32,000 recovered by grant body who paid the money in error

Third-level students were overpaid more than €4m in grant money during the 2012/13 academic year, it has emerged.

Susi — the body which oversees the payment of all third-level grants — has admitted that a total of €3.7m was paid out in error to 1,300 students who were ineligible to receive certain fee and maintenance grants. It represents an average overpayment of €2,850 per student.