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MrsManda wrote: »

Other than the grant you repaid have you received any student loans over the last two years? If you've not received anything and have been deferred it's likely to just be a mix up and should get sorted. Did you inform SFE (or LEA) that you'd deferred?

Thanks MrsManda.

I've received no money from them or anyone else. I repaid the money immediately.

I did tell the SFE about the deferral.

Looks like it was a mix-up at the college's end and I'll have to keep hounding them to sort it out.

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Taiko wrote: »

It's the university.

For SFE to release funds, they had to confirm you were in attendance. If the university done this, then they made the mistake.

Only advice is to keep chasing your university. SFE won't do a thing until such time as they receive written confirmation.

I'm going to tell them to sort it out immediately.

Thanks.

Savvy_Sue

bluebindy123 wrote: »

I paid 700.00 towards my daughters college fees last year. This year I have got a bill for £2160. Have they changed how the monies are sorted. The only difference is that I have another son starting at the same college this September. our finances are the same as previous years.

I don't know much about how these things are sorted, but I wonder if both your children were listed as 'dependent' on the form your completed for your DD, or whether your son has temporarily come 'off' because his A level results are still pending (so he's not confirmed as a Year 1 student yet) but he's no longer at school.

Does that make sense? Do any of those 'in the know' think this possible?

It's worth noting that when DS3 started his amounts were different to DS2's.

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hi there

I am a bit confused as I am due to commence the above course in Sept 2011 and have been informed that i would need to complete the PN1 form as it is classed as a full time course for student finance purposes (presumably due it being an in service course) - however when I spoke with an advisor at the college he said because it is a part time course i needed to complete the PTG1 form.
Can anybody shed some light on this please?

Many thanks in advance

Taiko

Link up the course please.

Jscott

kyusho wrote: »

Thanks for the help Taiko, greatly appreciated. To keep you updated, I've just sent them this letter- I hope it sounds Ok.

Hi,

I'm going through something similar myself in regards to the £7500 limit they seem to have plucked from thin air. Have they gotten back to you yet? Just I'm thinking of writing to them with something similar myself.

Many thanks

Jen

Oldernotwiser

bluebindy123 wrote: »

I paid 700.00 towards my daughters college fees last year. This year I have got a bill for £2160. Have they changed how the monies are sorted. The only difference is that I have another son starting at the same college this September. our finances are the same as previous years.

Are you sure nothing's changed? Is she on a different course or has she turned 19?

Savvy_Sue

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Are you sure nothing's changed? Is she on a different course or has she turned 19?

One thing which has changed is this;

bluebindy123 wrote: »

The only difference is that I have another son starting at the same college this September.

And as I suggested above, if the son is in that 'awkward' stage of having turned 18 he is no longer dependent / not at school full-time. If he is also waiting for A level results then it's not yet definite that he's going to be a student.

If I'm right, the current assessment may not count the son as a dependent, which presumably he was last year, and that would affect the assessment. But bb hasn't come back to confirm or deny this.

Of course I could be wrong about that too, but none of the SF experts have said that either. I'd just have thought that they were more likely to do a reassessment after A levels than assume he was definitely going to be a student.

bluebindy123

Hi sorry its late getting back to you. The reason the amount is different is that this year incapacity benefit is being included as income as years before they were not. This is the only reason that the amount to be paid it different. The amount I paid last year was 700.00 next years amount is 1705.00 bit of a jump in costs.. Thanks for all your help

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Savvy_Sue wrote: »

One thing which has changed is this;

And as I suggested above, if the son is in that 'awkward' stage of having turned 18 he is no longer dependent / not at school full-time. If he is also waiting for A level results then it's not yet definite that he's going to be a student.

If I'm right, the current assessment may not count the son as a dependent, which presumably he was last year, and that would affect the assessment. But bb hasn't come back to confirm or deny this.

Of course I could be wrong about that too, but none of the SF experts have said that either. I'd just have thought that they were more likely to do a reassessment after A levels than assume he was definitely going to be a student.

I think that there are more complex reasons involved as there seem to have been major changes that the OP hasn't mentioned on this thread.

She posted earlier this year that,

" I will be applying for a bursary for my daughter soon to live in at college through the L.E.A as before it was done throught the college themselves. Do they need the same information as before or do they also need bank account statements etc. Also what happens when a child turns 19 at college aswe wont get any benefits from the government, what can they claim themselves. We are on a low income and in the past got a bursary for most cost."