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Mature student and housing benefit - help

lil_umka · 2011-02-12 12:47:54

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this. I've been studying for a degree with OU, then our son came along and I figured it'd be impossible to continue working, studying and bringing him up, so after much deliberation I left work to go to uni full time. My husband is on disability benefits and gets housing and…

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lil_umka Posts: 10 Forumite

20 February 2011 at 12:01AM

Hi divastrop
thanks for your reply. I suspected that the summer period is not counted as study period, so should be disregarded from SLC and council point of view, thanks for confirming that. is it only in first two years? what about third year?

we were receiving CTC but because of all changes in DH's benefits, that's being recalculated as well, don't know how that's going to turn out

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