Financial assistance for single parent going top Uni

Middlers

I have an 18yr old daughter hopefully going to Uni in October. The thing is she has a 1yr old daughter to support and is on Family Tax Credit etc whilst trying to hold down a part time job. Will she be entitled to financial assistance with her fees and childcare etc? Hopefully someone out there can point us in the right direction. Thanks.

The_doomed

there is help available out there. best contact the uni welfare office for advice, they wont mind helping.

Oldernotwiser

The Lone Parent Adviser at the Jobcentre will be able to do the sums for her. She will have to take out the fee loan and the maintenance loan and there is additional money she can get but the maintenance loan will be classed as income for her.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/UniversityAndHigherEducation/StudentFinance/StudentFinanceFactsheets/DG_10034876

Hope this helps.

missk_ensington

Hi I'm a 2nd year uni student at Lancaster and I have a 3 hyear old son as a single parent.

Depending on her living arrangements, she will be entitled to Childcare Grant, money towards her fees, non-repayable grants (they have changed since this year so I don;t know what they are anymore) and obviously her loan worth around £4,000 a year.

Once at uni she can apply to the Access To Learning Fund if her uni runs this. What uni is she going to? I think most uni's provide ALF.

A single parent student is probably the most well off student on campus, excluding those whose parents are paying for everything, because you're unable to spend all your money on going out like everyone else! I could never have got on the property ladder had I not had £10,000 a year of loans/grants coming in for my deposit. Obviously, as a student with a child it is a lot harder. She should be more worred about the workload than the finances - I have almost given up on several occassions when I've had 4x 2500 word essays due in on the same day and I've been off for 10 days with chicken pox!


Hope this helps x

Karnam

missk_ensington wrote:

A single parent student is probably the most well off student on campus, excluding those whose parents are paying for everything, because you're unable to spend all your money on going out like everyone else! I could never have got on the property ladder had I not had £10,000 a year of loans/grants coming in for my deposit. Obviously, as a student with a child it is a lot harder. She should be more worred about the workload than the finances - I have almost given up on several occassions when I've had 4x 2500 word essays due in on the same day and I've been off for 10 days with chicken pox!


Hope this helps x

not true. i am a student parent and am shockingly skint all the time. 10k sounds like a lot more than anything i get, i get 6k, and 5k goes on rent.

i do agree that the money thing isnt as bad as the timing thing, its so hard to juggle but generally tutors are mega understanding with extensions etc.