Full time education no money

kimmoss88

NAD1611 wrote: »

You are quite right, most students work.The difference is you are 18 and your parents will still be in receipt of benefits for you and I doubt you are making a substantial contribution to the household, so your situation is not the same. Thanks anyway

No, if he's an 18 year old first year uni student, his parents get nothing for him.

Don't pick on the students that do get money. I'm at uni and I have about £30 spare cash a week, and this includes feeding myself.

Is there not a level 3 course your daughter could do that's pretty much the same (is there one she would continue onto after the level 2 course? could she get on this with her A-Levels?)

Or, like somebody else said, consider asking a careers advisor.

sophief333

kimmoss88 wrote: »

No, if he's an 18 year old first year uni student, his parents get nothing for him.

Don't pick on the students that do get money. I'm at uni and I have about £30 spare cash a week, and this includes feeding myself.

Is there not a level 3 course your daughter could do that's pretty much the same (is there one she would continue onto after the level 2 course? could she get on this with her A-Levels?)

Or, like somebody else said, consider asking a careers advisor.

Hehe, thanks for the support but Im a she, not a he!

kimmoss88

sophief333 wrote: »

Hehe, thanks for the support but Im a she, not a he!

Sorry, dunno why I assumed you were male!

John38_2

Education Maintainance Alowance/Child Benefit/Child Tax Credit/Income Support etc which ard in some circumstances paid to a young person or to their parents are paid up a specific age.

18 ISN'T the cut off point. 19 ISN'T the cut off point. If you start a 1 year course when you're 19, and you turn 20 next August, then you'll get EMA throughout, and your parents will still get Child Benefit. All the benefits cut off on your 20th birthday.

So if your 20th is in October, you're a bit unlucky, if its in August, then you've got the chance of 4 years free further education. So you could do a BTEC National, as well a 4 'A Levels', to help you get into a good Uni, or just there to fall back on.