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Can I use my student loans to buy a house
My boyfriend and I are tired of paying ridiculous amounts to rent sub par houses and want to buy a house instead. He's in full time work, I'm in part time and am also a student. Both our parents have saved money over the years for us to be able to use as a deposit for a house but both our incomes are fairly low (his is…
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Better to use savings or get a postgrad loan for Master's degree?
I'm thinking about doing a part-time MA while I work. I have a small amount of savings, enough to cover my MA fees, and I would still be earning and saving while studying for the MA. I think I would feel more reassured leaving my savings untouched and taking out a postgrad loan instead, but is that a stupid idea…
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Bursary for teacher training SKE pulled by DofE
I am in a Facebook group for aspiring teachers and a lot of people are saying mid way through their Subject Knowledge Enhancement courses for teacher training the bursaries have been pulled. Anyone know what is happening with this?
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PGCE / Initial Teacher Training Year - Should I take the student loan?
Hi, Tired to figure this out, and searched for other posts but have struggled so any help would be appreciated please. I'm changing careers to become a secondary school teacher. For this I will get a bursary of £26,000. The fees for the course are £9250. Paying the fees 'upfront' from savings will cause no financial…
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Student Finance Problem
My daughter qualified as a Children’s Nurse in 2011 after studying for a Nursing Diploma at UCLAN. This course was funded and required no student finance at all. Since this time she has worked on a children’s ward at Blackburn, at Derian House Children’s Hospice and within a safeguarding role in East Lancashire and…
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Child care grant and universal credit
Hi guys! I could really use some help as I've searched the web high and low but cannot find the answer I need!! I am a full time mature student with 2 children, both are in full time childcare. I have been given my award notice for the childcare grant. They've allowed me so much for the year to cover September 2020 through…
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Erduio
Hi. Anyone have any experience with these? Historical loan. DD set but accidentally defaulted and now have to pay it back even though I am still under the original threshold figure. Very old loan 20yrs +Any help gratefully received.
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Childcare Grant
Does anyone know if both parents need to be students in order to receive the Childcare Grant or not? I'm getting different answers from Student Finance England. One person says both parents must be students and then another person says only one parent needs to be a student. At the moment, both of us of students but from…
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SFE say I owe £5600
Maybe I’m dumb... but I don’t understand the email I received from SFE. This overpayment thing has been going on for ages, figures increasing each time, it’s now up to £5600. I can’t speak to a manager, I’ve been told their unable to transfer me as the advisors are working from home. I was part time till jan(90 credits)…
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Student Grant
Hi all, I would really appreciate some advice on this. I have applied for a Student grant to cover my living costs and studying materials. I am going to study in Denmark and the grant is through a charity. The total grant is 5K. Can anyone tell me if I have declare this as income? The grant won’t be available to me until…
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Moved: Item delivered twice - can the seller get it back
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Redundancy and maintenance grant already applied for and accepted on old wage
Hi, So, my daughter is starting University this year, tuition fees and maintenance grants sorted a few months ago. Obviously, based on what my earnings were. I was made redundant starting from July (three months full pay), so as of October, I will be earning substantially less, I have jobs lined up, but I am unlikely to…
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Student Emergency Fund
My daughter is off to uni soon and I was thinking of giving her a prepaid Visa/MasterCard topped up with a few hundred pounds to use incase of emergencies. I trust her implicitly, and know for certain that this will not be frittered away on general day to day spending. However, I have heard bad reviews about these cards,…
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Student Loan Repayments and Other pay decuctions
Hello, I am currently getting paid for my Student Nurse Placements and have had student loan taken from all my pay checks even though I am not due to repay till April 2020 (If I earn enough). The employer is saying tough luck and the SLC have sent two letters to tell them to stop taking it and the employer is saying the…
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Student loan change of circumstances years ago
I phoned student finance england and the colleague said i need to fill in a co1 form to cancel student loan. Years ago i got poorly and was unable to complete my University HND course year 1 with student loan. So will it get written off the student loan, if i fill in a co1 form, send it back and notify of change of…
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Second year uni student and inheritance - accept student financing for year 3 or pay ?
Hello all, I hope you can help. We live in France and my daughter is just about to start her second year at Manchester Uni in September and has already accepted/applied for the student financing for year 2. However, unfortunately and incredibly sadly both my husband and his mother have died in the last three months so…
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Age restrictions on student loans
I am 72 and want to study in the social sector...would I still qualify for a student loan?
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Doctoral Loan and Universal credit
With a full Doctoral loan, UC only use 30% as income, but it's pound for pound taken off, unlike earnings which is 63p in the pound. Have I got this right? Thanks.
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Relevance of current income
Hi all. I'm 61, in Wales and retired. I have a child in final year at Uni. During recent years I've thought about getting a part time job, but decided not to, as it may mess up student finance. (Or maybe I'm just lazy) My question, having recently filled in all the student loan support stuff again, is : the information I…
