Bus Pass For Mature Students

Driving_Soon

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Was it you that was trying to prove you have no income so that you can get a current income assessment? If so, how's it going?

Haha yeah thats me!

I rang up the helpline, and they just said send of the pack with a little note and my p45 saying I gave up work, so It's just the waiting game now haha!

Oldernotwiser

Driving_Soon wrote: »

Haha yeah thats me!

I rang up the helpline, and they just said send of the pack with a little note and my p45 saying I gave up work, so It's just the waiting game now haha!

Great! An extra £10 per week's not to be sneezed at.:D

Driving_Soon

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Great! An extra £10 per week's not to be sneezed at.:D

Exactly lol!

Grami

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

If you only have AS levels rather than A2s then you WILL be eligible for ALG. You need 2 full A levels (A2s) to count as a full level 3 qualification. Get your application in quickly, it'll more than pay for your travel costs.

Really? Well I was told by somebody from the college that I would be ineligable. I will definately try it out though I did work it out months ago that based on our income I'd get £10 but it'd definately help for busfare each week.

Thank you very much.

surfsister

Long shot but could you try writing to the bus company as it is age descrimination as a student is a student regardless of age surely? TRy the top man if you can find him

Oldernotwiser

Grami wrote: »

Really? Well I was told by somebody from the college that I would be ineligable. I will definately try it out though I did work it out months ago that based on our income I'd get £10 but it'd definately help for busfare each week.

Thank you very much.

As long as you're doing the course full time and you don't have another level 3 qualification tucked up your sleeve(BTEC National/NVQ3 etc) you will be eligible for ALG,although it will be assessed on your household income. In addition, some colleges have fees waived for Access courses under something called the Level 3 Entitlement, so it may be worth checking that as well. There's probably been some confusion as you have AS levels, rather than the full A levels (A2s).

I used to be a Careers Advisor in an FE College, so I'm pretty reliable on this sort of stuff. (Although nobody's 100%!) Let me know how you get on.

Ytaya

If it's only three miles, why not get a bike? You can get a bike off Freecycle, or for cheap second hand, and it'd only take 20 minutes tops to cycle that far.

melancholly

Ytaya wrote: »

If it's only three miles, why not get a bike? You can get a bike off Freecycle, or for cheap second hand, and it'd only take 20 minutes tops to cycle that far.

oh man, it scares me that none of the rest of us thought of that!!! perfect solution! i'm actually embarrassed that it never crossed my mind!