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Cost of university
Hello, Can you advise, I am on pip, esa income based, recieve HB & CT as a single mom. My son wants to live at far away uni, i just dont know how i will meet the accommodation costs for each year. Will his loan & maintenance grant cover it, will he get these monies for each year. Tried telling him to choose a local uni but…
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Will my tuition fee loan be auto amended? OU
Studying with the OU as of October. Applied for tuition fee loan via SFE. When filling out the online form it said the max I could take was £2,700 (the cost of 60 credits). Loan has been approved and paperwork arrived this morning for £2,700. However, I will be studying for 90 credits, which will cost around £4,000. I…
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SAAS funding for non-UK students
Hey, I have just applied for my 2nd year tuition fees. I am in my 1st year of university now, but not a UK resident (not lived in Scotland for 3 consecutive years either). However, somebody mentioned to me recently, that there is a possibility to get SAAS bursary and loan as long as I commit to finish my full degree here…
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Interest change for new 1998-2011 loans?
Hi, Don't think my title makes any sense but anyway... I was reapplying for my student loan and the following came up on the confirmation page: The thing is, I started my course in 2010, so I am on the 1998-2011 scheme. My previous loans have always had 1.5% interest and I thought repay when I earn over 17,000. I called up…
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How long do I need to keep old assignments?
I'm not sure that this belongs in this section as it's not about student money issues, nor perhaps an issue for current students, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. Perhaps someone can help though? I need to have a clear out to create some space and am wondering whether to throw out my old uni assignments? These were…
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About to loose my eligibility???
Hi everyone First of all, a huge thank you to anyone who goes to the effort of reading all this. I believe that I am beginning to stand on pretty thin ice with regards to my eligibility for student finance due to what I would deem as a temporary absence from England. To make this as simple as possible I've put this all in…
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Student debt
Hello, I need some advice please!!! I recieved a.letter yesterday from the student loans company saying I owe them over £7000!!! £2000+ of that is from when I dropped out of uni in 2007/2008, the rest is because they claim I didn't send in a childcare confirmation form in 2011/2012 which I never recieved a letter about!!!…
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unidays house of fraser
Hi im trying to purchase something from house of fraser and my unidays code isnt working. Is anyone else having this problem? Thank you
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Mature student covering mortgage and bills on year abroad
I'm a mature student about to go on my year abroad in August 2015 and will be earning a basic salary to cover living costs. I have a mortgage and bills to pay in the UK, most of them in my name and my partner, who will be staying in the UK, can't afford to pay everything in my absence. I'm not entitled to Erasmus funding…
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Messed around by Student Finance
Hi, I wanted to post my story (again) and maybe get some feedback about where I could take it to get some more publicity for how I've been messed around by Student Finance... I will try to be brief... 2010-12: Completed Cert HE part time with the OU 2012: Applied to SFE for full time funding, told that as I hadn't…
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lowest cost part time uk (or maybe EU) academic degree
So, I don't need to do another degree for any pragmatic or career reason, I'm "sorted" in that regard and happily studying various MOOC's or similar for essentially recreation. That said, sometimes the odd course has bits where I could benefit from being able to incentivise myself to put in a bit more effort and a 'reward'…
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Maintaining ordinary residence
Hi, As advised in my previous post ‘About to lose my eligibility’, I’m posting this to try and simplify my problem. I’ve been working in China for the past 8 months and have 2 months left on my contract. As this is a temporary contract I feel that I could certainly prove that this absence is temporary in order to keep my…
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Student Loan Interest
Just read this article from 'Moneyfacts': http://moneyfacts.co.uk/news/buy-to-let/cheap-buy-to-let-mortgage-deals-on-the-rise/?utm_source=Moneyfacts.co.uk+&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5640945_Consumer+Newsletter+250415+(non-opens+re-send+290415) So Buy To Let mortgages, 3.34% are cheaper than the interest on Student…
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Very very confused about SFE processes for illness
I'm in year 2 of a 3 year course. I'm doing really well academically, but my health has taken a hit this year and I may need to repeat part of the year because of a high absence rate for hospital appointments/consultant appointments/treatments etc. I have 1 year of previous study from a few years ago and SFE are of course…
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Your student loans are being sold to vulture like debt collectors!
From the budget; 2.15 Asset sales – Progress continues towards the sale of the government’s stake in Urenco, the pre-2012 income contingent repayment student loan book and public sector spectrum. The income contingent repayment student loan book will be disposed of in a number of tranches, with a first sale intended to…
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Funding as a mature student
My partner is planning to go to uni to study maths but we are struggling to work out how he can afford it. Basically he started a module with the OU in february and asked shortly after about joining the degree as a full-time student. He was told that was fine and he would have to apply march and sort out student loan in…
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House of Fraser Student Discount Problem - please help!
Hi, I usual get student discount at House of Fraser through my NUS Card, I study CIMA. I went to apply for a code as I have a birthday present I would like to buy for ~£300. When I tried to get my code, House of Fraser now only use UniDays, which doesn't accept CIMA as a valid student scheme, even though I study at…
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Parent support income declaration?
Hi Filled out our household income information as requested by SLC to support our sons application. When entering gross income, I was also asked about taxable benefits (company car etc.) which I entered. On the last page the taxable benefits were added to the gross income. Is this right? We don't physically see any of…
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Benefits open university funding etc.
Hi I'm in Esa support group and get dla My partner is also on dla and unable to work. In my claim includes him I would love to do some Open university modules and potentially a degree How would everything affect my benefits. Due to illness and disability I think I could only manage part time study What are the financial…
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Student Loan - 3rd party Support
I have received a letter from the SLC regarding my loan. They want me to prove I am being supported by a third party as I am not in employment and not on taxable benefits. The exact wording is 'have your third party complete the Third Party Declaration on the form and provide evidence of the support they provide to you.…
