Help With Student Loans - HERE!

Savvy_Sue

Might I suggest that your confusion arises from the fact that you may get more than one loan, if you change courses or take a break, but I'm fairly sure you WON'T get another loan because you already have an undergraduate degree.

Open University? Not as cheap as it was, but can be done part-time and fitted around work.

What career are you wanting to move into? There may be other ways in.

Taiko

There are exceptions. What course are you looking at?

surfchick106

Hi, I apologise for how complicated this is going to sound:

We are after some advice. My partner went back to uni this year as a mature student he had taken a year out between his 2nd and 3rd year of study as he was taken ill. When he returned this year he applied for his student funding for his tuition fees and maintenance grant, he called them up in Ocotober as it was taking a long time to hear back from them, on this call he was told that he was going to recieve full funding for his final year. Brilliant, thats what we were expecting. Then a few months later as he was getting worried as to why his tuition fees had not been paid he rang them again, this time to be told he was not getting his fees loan paid and he would have to self fund his final year.

The reasons are becasue he has had his entiltmenet of tuition loan as he took the year out (or as they called it "dropped out!") He has been to see the union at the uni which have contacted SFE on his behalf with the same conclusion. He gets a care leavers bursary every year but this doesnt even cover a fraction of the cost of the course, having to work full time to cover the tuition fees, and therefore not being able to attend parts of the course which he is paying for due to having to work.

When we questioned with SFE why they told him originally that he was told he was being funded with the loan they didnt even apologise saying it must have been a mistake that the person said to him!

Can anyone shed some light on the situation, as he is getting far behind with his studies, and may even need to drop out if he cannot pay the full balance of tuition fees by May. Its his final 4 months, and we just really need some advice rather then being fobbed off by SFE and the university.

Thanks

Dunroamin

Has he studied at degree level before?

silvercar

Slightly impressed with student finance.

A second letter arrived for DS, saying he just needs to sign and return to receive the same maintenance and tuition loan as last year.

So I'm impressed that they have simplified the process and impressed that they sent out a second reminder that even contained an addressed envelope.

And the reason the first one wasn't signed is that he is at uni and the letters come to home.

duchy

Pity they can't make the first year even vaguely organized. It's now March and my son is yet to see a penny and has almost certainly lost his disabled student's grant (He has had to struggle on without agreed support as the money just didn't happen as Student Finance couldn't get their act together) Like students with disabilities don't have enough to deal with......What an absolute shower

Granville23

Hi quick question if anyone knows.

I am £472 under the threshold and just filling in my deferment form. I get roughly £10 a month interest from my bank and £147 next month as a dividend from shares. Do I need to include these on my form being under the threshold, as these equate to a monthly average of £22.

If I do what sort of documentation do I need, i.e bank statements and how many, and what documentation do I supply for the dividend as I won't get any confirmation of this untill May

Thanks

leather5

Hi, my son is in the process of applying for his first year funding and we are doing the application to support his. We understand that we are required to give 2011/2012 year end figures for his application. Since then our circumstances have changed dramatically, my husband has been made redundant twice in quick succession and is now unemployed and claiming cont. jsa. I work part time. I think I understand that we have to apply using 2011/2012 figures, he gets a low award, then we ask for an in year readjustment (?) where we give the figures we estimate we will earn tax year 2013/2014. Is this right? at the moment we are only in receipt of my wage and husbands jsa but hope that he will get a job soon, do you suggest we estimate on these figures or leave it untill nearer the date our son is off to uni - what sort of date do you suggest? worried he will not get enough loan to pay his first accommodation bill etc. Thanks in advance for any help you can give

devildog

leather5-Apply using the 11/12 income figures then request a change of circumstances form detailing your wage and oh's JSA. As and when oh gets a job then do another change of circumstances form.
Personally I wouldn't wait until nearer the time that your son is due to head off as Student Finance are notorious at losing evidence that has been sent in.

leather5

Thanks Devildog for the help, will apply and do change of circumstance as soon as the forms are printed for this tax year.