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Student benefits
Apart from council tax exemption, what other help and benefits can students get whilst at university?
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Parental maintenance loan contribution if living abroad
Hi - just trying to understand the rules about household income if one parent lives abroad. Is this ex pat income still counted as ‘household income’ - the children will be living away for uni and going back to their uk home at non term time. I’m getting confusing messages from student finance. Just don’t want to get…
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Fee increase
Can a university increase its yearly fee on your last year of study? Does anyone know?
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Student loan when you have lived abroad
Hey I was wondering if anyone could advise. I was surprised to be told over the phone today that I was not eligible for student finance as I had worked abroad for 8 months within the last three years. The reason I rang was I had received a letter with incorrect details asking for proof I was abroad on a temporary contract…
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HSBC Student Account
If you are a mature student who already has a bank account HSBC are refusing to set up a student account. They then send you leaflet inferring that it's to do with Credit Scoring / References & Fraud Prevention which isn't true as I'm not looking for loans etc (Rather the opposite)...
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SLC refusing year 1 uni tuition fee loan
Hi My son stayed at school one year to 17 doing A levels but decided after lower sixth he wanted to leave. So he got a job and worked for 2 years. Then he decide to go to FE college to do a BTEC extended diploma in sport coaching. This course takes 2 years but you can still get some kind of award if you stop after year 1.…
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Best way to help when child is in financial crisis
Hi So, she’s gone and done it. Got herself into debt, too proud to ask for help but has got to robbing Peter to pay Paul. She works around her studies. A harsh talk and reality check leaves us clearing her excess debt and arranged a sensible payment schedule so that the money is repaid. Lessons need to be learned and we…
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Help! How to show my Working Holiday is temporary for SFE?
Has anyone else had problems with the ordinary residence requirements for Student Finance when you've been abroad on a Working Holiday? Few months ago I submitted evidence of my temporary absences overseas, most recently a Working Holiday in Japan (where I'm still currently at and will return on 29th August). I submitted…
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Postgraduate Student Bank Accounts?
Hi! See title. My question is about becoming a postgrad student in the next month or so. Not sure on the answer to this one so hopefully some postgrads here can help me out :) Do banks consider you as a "Year 1" student on a postgraduate course, or "Year 5" (4 years of Scottish undergrad + the postgrad)? I was going to…
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When does the academic year start?
My eldest has applied for student finance as an independent student as they will be 25 on 4th September. SLC have now said that the academic year starts on 1st September and therefore they will only be 24 so don't class as an independent student. I can't find anywhere that defines the academic year start date on SLC. The…
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As an ex student nurse with just over £8K student loan . Is it worth me paying it back early ?
Hi , Should I try and repay my loan early?? I was a student nurse , so did not have a loan for fees and just graduated ,my balance is £8,341.As a starting nurse I earn just over 21K so now I am getting charged 3% plus the RPI . I am 48 so 20 years until retirement . :Martin Lewis says that students should not worry as they…
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SF Wales Help Please
I'm planning ahead for my daughter's SL Finance Wales application for next year and need some help please. 1. Am I right in thinking that our household income for 2017/18 Is relevant for 2019/20 unit entry? 2. I'm self employed and made a loss in that year and took no wages . Does this count as a minus against my husband's…
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Legal bids launched for tuition fee compensation - what you need to know - MSE News
Students who missed out on teaching time during university strikes earlier this year are trying to get compensation, with more than 5,000 signing up to a proposed group legal action and hundreds more filing individual claims...Read the full story: 'Legal bids launched for tuition fee compensation - what you need to know''…
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Changing from dependent to independent
My child is at university and about to start their third, and final, year. Once again we have been asked to provide our income details so the loans can be calculated. However, my child is 25 and I don't feel that they should be depending on us any more to fund their education. We have supported in the past but have other…
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Deferred from 2005 to 2006 but paid higher fees
I deferred my place at uni in 2005 and started in 2006. Is it correct that I was charged £3000 per year?
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Is a loan worth it..
I am going back to UNi as a very mature student (54) and have money set aside from redundancy which will easily cover me for the years top-up degree that I'm undertaking. I seem to think that with the rates the way they are, that there is no incentive for me to take out a loan for fees or maintenance... Am I just being…
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HMRC not passing on payments to SLC
Bit of a rant... A few years ago I changed jobs. A couple of years later on my student loan statement was a line adding £1000+ to my loan because HMRC had decided my employer had not deducted anything from my salary for student loan for the previous 18 months. HMRC were very extremely arrogant about it st the time when I…
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Forecast on tuition fees
Keen to seek peoples opinions on what they forecast on the future of university tuition fees will be... post brexit? Do you think the fees will see any changes as we exit brexit?
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Lifetime training failing me as a learner
Hello Looking for a bit of advice. Essentially I signed up to Lifetime Training over a year ago to complete my level 3 Personal training diploma with them alongside my career. Initially, the support from my desktop tutor was good, I completed the workbooks in a timely manner and had a right nightmare trying to book time…
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Student Maintenance Grant Parental contribution calculator
Could anyone please help i am looking to calculate the amount of money I will need to save to top up my daughters grant next year for subsistence I understand the advice on the website and the calculator other than what they define as taxable income , the student loan advice line on the government website is useless and…
