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Graduate Accounts 2012/13
This thread is specifically to discuss the Graduate Accounts 2018/19 Article Click reply to discuss
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Debts and Mature Nursing Degree?????
Hi, Wonder if you can offer me some advice. I'm 34, work in the hospital as admin (full time band 2 18750 per year) and hoping to do an access course funded through work and then hopefully a degree in radiography. I have around 12K of debts over 2 credit cards and I'm working on getting this down. I live with my partner…
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MSE News: Government gives student loan sale 'assurances' after Martin raises concern
The Government has promised the upcoming sale of student loan debt will not impact graduates in any way...Read the full story: 'Government gives student loan sale 'assurances' after Martin raises concerns' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works,…
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Student credit card
Hi, I have been looking into getting a credit card just to boost my credit rating but have been unsure on how to go about it or which to get. I currently have a student account with HSBC and another account with lloyds. The student account with HSBC however i have wanted to get rid of and potentially switch the student to…
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SFE "Overpayment" Nightmare
The Student Loans Company have been chasing an "overpayment" of £4100 from payments allocated from Student Finance England for the financial year 2013/14. SFE needed additional information which I was received by them on 4th Oct 2016. I spoke with a SLC representative in November 2016 and they confirmed SFE had received my…
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Mothers partner and student loan?
Hi We just need advice on my partners daughters next years student loan amount... I have just moved in with my partner as from 1st Feb. She is concerned it will affect the amount her daughter receives for next years fees... As I have 2 children myself and am obviously not financially in a position to also support her adult…
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Student Finance Grant Overpayment ! Help !!
Student Finance has been pestering me about an overpayment of a grant which occurred 2014/15. 2 Years later I get a letter declaring I had been overpaid. They kept changing there story how this overpayment occurred and blamed myself and parents when submitting the application. However, they finally confessed this was…
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Overpayment refund for me or not?
Hi Can someone please clarify when you have overpaid on your student loan repayments? My understanding is that we pay back 9% of anything earned over the yearly threshold. I am sometimes paid weekly/monthly and am a mixture of under or over the weekly/monthly threshold amounts - however I thought you were entitled to a…
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Withdrawn from course – maintenance loan paid before I did – what now?
I decided to withdraw from uni over the christmas holiday, and have notified the university in time so as not to be liable for tuition fees this year (i've been issued only my first installment thankfully, which covered the first term). My withdrawal has been finalised, but shortly before it was my first maintenance loan…
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Leaving Uni
Can you advice me. How does my son inform Student Finance he has dropped out of his course? Many thanks
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Student Loan payments from Dubai
Hopefully this is the right thread! Does anyone have experience of paying student loans while working in the Middle East? My husband and I have just moved out there and he's trying to sort out his student loan. The SLC in its wisdom have decided Dubai is a much cheaper place to live than the UK (ha!) and lowered the…
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2:1 degree... calculation??
Hi there, I've been unsure where to post this but I'm wondering if someone can help me. I want to work out what percentages I need to get a 2:1 in the final year of my 3 year degree. Year 2 and 3 are weighted evenly at 50% each. 59% = 2:1 classification. In year 2, I did 5 modules and year 3 there are 6. Both years are…
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Can an SLC 'debt' be statute barred?
I have received a letter regarding an old student loan from debt collector saying I owe £1990.00. I am unsure when this was from but looking back at my old student loan stuff online I believe it to be from 2012/2013, where I may have been incorrectly paid one of the grants by the SLC. I was paid a grant in the Oct 2012,…
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Council messed up benefit/student exemption
I am in a situation where I get work related esa, but study a college course as permitted by jobcentre, I do not get a grant or loan just fees waived as on benefits. Its a basic course so even if I wasn't on benefits I would not get a loan. I moved house where things were fine, though I do remember getting a letter at old…
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Transferring to open University and Student Loan advice
I would be grateful for any advice. My son is on a three year University course and has already repeated year 1 after failing while suffering with mental health issues. Year 2 was started in September 2016. Last week it became obvious he was very unwell again and he is not going to be able to go back to University. My…
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help please with saving references
Hi moneysavers!! Hoping smeobody can he,p me here as it's always worked in the past. I am currently undertaking a masters and cannot get to grips with saving references to the uni's Reworks account which is free as at least 50% oof the time I can't login thru the uni website due to probls!! My servisor used Endote and…
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Worth getting second lot of loans?
Hi all, I'm just finishing a PhD and I'm going to be starting a PGCE in September. I have Plan 1 loans from my first degree, but was wondering if it's worth taking out Plan 2 loans to cover the £9000 tuition and building up a larger debt portfolio? Having read the various posts on this website it would suggest the short…
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Recently unemployed and not claiming benefits. SLC requesting bank statements.
Hopefully this is the right place to ask! I am 24 years old, unemployed since October and looking for work since. I have chosen not to claim any benefits as of yet as I do not have a lot of costs due to living at home and hope to find another job ASAP. The Student Loans Company have written to me stating they are aware I…
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Student Loans Company and "ordinarily resident".
Hi all, This is my first post here but I am a long time lurker. I would be eternally grateful if somebody knowledgeable could answer a question I have in regard to the definition of "ordinarily resident" in the UK - specifically the definition applied by the Student Loans Company. I'm a British Citizen, however, I have…
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Paying back under the threshold
Hi guys, hoping someone can help me with this; I received a lump sum payment in my wages this month as compensation for loss of earnings from my job, it was subject to tax. As well as my tax and NI contribution there was also a payment that went to student loans. By the end of this tax year I will have made less than the…
