Tuition Fees Loan Problem

Nikkisun

My son is due to go to Uni in Sep so his tuition fees will be £9k however he is filling in his application for student finance which is saying that his tuition fee loan will be £3225!

What's gone wrong??

Can anyone help?

Taiko

My guess would be that he has put down he has previous study. Has he?

Nikkisun

Taiko wrote: »

My guess would be that he has put down he has previous study. Has he?

Nope - have looked through the whole application and there's no errors at all!!

On the last page just before you submit the app - it states that he'll be liable to pay the extra £5+k!!

MusicalLawyer

He must be applying for 11/12 year, as currently you can apply for both. Have a look on his online application and it will say what year he has applied for on 'My Account'.

amiehall

It's broken. On the contrary, I'm continuing and it's trying to give me £9000. Give it a couple of weeks, the whole thing needs sorting out for almost every student. He'll get his loan.

Nikkisun

KellyKing1987 wrote: »

He must be applying for 11/12 year, as currently you can apply for both. Have a look on his online application and it will say what year he has applied for on 'My Account'.

Definitely 12/13 - have double checked - also it tells him his fees are £9k and that he'll have to make up the difference.

Nikkisun

amiehall wrote: »

It's broken. On the contrary, I'm continuing and it's trying to give me £9000. Give it a couple of weeks, the whole thing needs sorting out for almost every student. He'll get his loan.

Thanks - he says he's going to let the system settle then try again and see what happens - otherwise it's a call to Student Finance which I hear is an event in itself!!

Madjen18

Student finance have only done a soft launch of 2012 applications far and it's earlier than we expected (we being student advisors in universities of which I am one). I will check the latest practitioner information for you.

Nikkisun

Madjen18 wrote: »

Student finance have only done a soft launch of 2012 applications far and it's earlier than we expected (we being student advisors in universities of which I am one). I will check the latest practitioner information for you.

Thank you - that would be very much appreciated.

Madjen18

I'm waiting for responses from a mail base but one suggestion so far is that if he had started applying for funding last year for 2011/12 and then not started a course the system would think he was returning or starting a second course. If this is the case SFE will need to cancel the old application.

Nikkisun

Madjen18 wrote: »

I'm waiting for responses from a mail base but one suggestion so far is that if he had started applying for funding last year for 2011/12 and then not started a course the system would think he was returning or starting a second course. If this is the case SFE will need to cancel the old application.

Nope - he's never applied before - he's taking his A-levels at the moment so not applied for anything previously.