Student Grant Help

omen666

My girlfriend is entitled to a loan and receives it and she is in her first year at UNI studying fine art. She is unable though to get a grant as she is unable to prove she has not lived at home for the last three years. She has sofa surfed round friends and family and an ex boyfriends ocer the years but has no bills or bank statements in her name and to get the grant she needs to prove she is and has not been living at home for the last three years but she cannot. How can she get around this as she is in a catch 22 here

Taiko

Can put this in one word: No.

Fire_Fox

Why ask the same question again OP??
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1533233&highlight=

Oldernotwiser

Sometimes it makes me wonder why we bother!

omen666

because something has got to be able to be done and I thought others ight see the post

MrsManda

omen666 wrote: »

because something has got to be able to be done and I thought others ight see the post

Why must something be done? If she left home three years ago, what has she been living on? If she hasn't had any income during that time then she hasn't been supporting herself and therefore the student finance should be still based on her parents income or her legal guardian. If she has had income then she must have evidence of it somewhere.

GlasweJen

it's not just a case of living away from home it's living independantly and supporting yourself. Unless you are married or your partner has children then the circumstances you describe would not warrant her being classed as an independant student. Proof of being an independant student is usually things like payslips/P60 documents to show that the applicant has been working, housing agreements to show that they are not living at home and that they have the financial savvy (i.e. can pay rent and council tax on time) to not be reliant on mummy and daddy.