MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Should Lucky Luke give back his hardship grant?

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TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain wrote: »

Its sick that he qualifies in the first place given that half the problem is that he gambles his money away in the first place!

Give it back and be ashamed that he claimed it in the first place..

Hardship grants are for cases of hardship, not those who spend their money unwisely..

I agree with the above but from experience thats how the hard ship fund is applied .... I cant get a penny from them, by the time they include my OD which they assume i am allowed the max, a full student loan etc then I am rich!! On the other hand someone (who I used to hang around with) on my course who has appalling money management skills, two children and a unemployed husband (he's been unemployed since level 1, now on repeat level 3! as he cant get a job which will pay him commurasant (sp) with his "experience") has had LOADS, last year they paid off her rent arrears last year so she could move to a nicer house, new wardrobes for the new house and so on ... One of the biggest problems she could solve would be to get rid of him as he spends money like water - last time I spoke to her (rather she talked at me :rolleyes:) he had spent £80 on a laptop battery as he needs to be able to play online games and she's always on the familys computer working.

I think if it happened to me then I would donate the money to a charity, one that has helped me enormously is the smaritans (I used to visit their office regularly to chat), but not back to them as they would only waste it :cool:

Jen

immortaljaz

I think he should give the money back. He applied when he was hard-up, fair enough but if I had that good luck I'd give the money back to the university so it could be awarded to someone in deeper financial woes!

However, I think a lot of people here are being very mean to this (albeit hypothetical) student.

I don't know a single student who is great with money - and honestly that's fair enough because it's the first time in most peoples lives they've handled money, and like everyone we're learning the hard way, and we make mistakes. (As a student myself...)

If you have £200/month to spend that sounds pretty reasonable, right? Wrong! I spend hundreds a year on books, and although sometimes I get some of the money back by selling them on, or buying them second hand, sometimes that simply isn't an option.

As a moneysaving board, I think it's safe to say that we're split between people giving advice having been through financial hardship, whatever the reason why, and people who haven't been able to manage their money.

It's the reason we're having a worldwide recession - is it not? Nobody can handle the money they have, so they spend money they don't!!!

As for those of you who students just "don't go out" when you're hard-up, good on you, but I can't live like that. If I work hard at uni, I need a time out somehow.

You just find a way to make it cheap!

I just think some of you are being to touch on the (again, fictional) guy.

worbikeman

He should return the £1000 because he no longer qualifies for it as he is no longer poor, and it would otherwise deprive another poor student of the money. But if he is studying politics or law he probably wont.