Student Loan Application 2010/11 rejected because of 3 year residence period

Taiko

I've looked at it, I'm intentionally ignoring it. I've had an identical message from 4 different accounts, except with an additional request to do an FOI for the migrant worker guidance. Seems more trying to get me to help, but entrap me into giving away my identity.

Taiko

Was the Philosophy Year 1 -> Year 2 -> Year 3, or Year 1 -> Year 2 - > Year 2 repeat or any variations on this?

Taiko

What would rule you out of fee funding was if you graduated with honours.

By my calculations, and assuming it's a 3 year social work course, you should only be eligible from SFE for the maintenance loan in the first two years of the course, and full support in the 3rd year. If it's a 4 year social work, should be full support for years 3 and 4.

If you've had support in your first year, you're likely to now be reassessed and be required to make repayments.

Taiko

Afraid so. If you had a fee loan and maintenance grant for the first year, these will now be revoked.

Entitlement is calculated as the length of the new course plus one year, minus any years of previous study. So for your 3 year course, it would be (3+1) - 3 = one years full entitlement. This has to be allocated to the final year of the new course, hence why the first two you're not eligible for the fee loan and maintenance grant.

Taiko

No, not at all. In actual fact, oddly enough the onus was on you to query the assessment.

There's no discretion on this. You'll be reassessed, and there's nothing that can be done to change this.

Taiko

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1555/contents/made

Paragraph 113

patrick101

Hey Taiko ...

I think you still remember me, the one that tried to argue on getting a student loan but not meeting the 3-year-residency rule...
My situation has slightly changed now. My dad has left us and gone back to Cyprus and bought a house. When my school year is over, I'm going back to live with him in the summer, while my mother will stay here until my brother has finished his treatment. So I'm going to send my Student Loan Application from Cyprus when I go back, and then claim that I was only temporarily in Lebanon for the past year and that my father's business was not affected, and here I am back in the EU... Will I then have higher chances of not being rejected, or is it still the same thing? I mean, I'll be back in Cyprus, which proves a lot that the the absence was really ONLY temporary since I did go back, especially because of the fact that my father had nothing to do with Lebanon, such as setting up a permanent business or anything. Isn't work the main factor that affects a family's situation and where a family is meant to reside? Shouldn't it all mainly depend on where the breadwinner is and where his business is set? What do you think? ...

Thanks a lot in advance

Taiko

You've ignored my advice once, and your situation has not changed. I'm not going to waste more of my time when there are other posters that need assistance.

patrick101

But Taiko, you never gave me any advice, all you told me was that I was ineligible according to the regulations and I already knew that. You never told me what I could or could not do ...

melancholly

patrick101 wrote: »

But Taiko, you never gave me any advice, all you told me was that I was ineligible according to the regulations and I already knew that. You never told me what I could or could not do ...

well, you couldn't get fees paid for you.... and the other option was to find a way to pay them yourself. sometimes there aren't any easy solutions.