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Student grant overpayment as not taking IVA into account. Please help !!

funface · 2012-04-07 17:08:23

If anyone can give advice on this it would be very appreciated. My partner has been in an IVA since 2006. I have now finished my degree but had problems getting my grants sorted and finalised from 2010/2011 - they have now written to me and stated I am not entiteld to adult dependent grant and in total it looks like they…

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Taiko Posts: 2,740 Forumite

9 April 2012 at 2:36PM

I think in the context, the IVA would come under the debt consolidation plan. I know strictly speaking there's differences, but the thing they have in common is that they are both to pay off debts.

In any case, I would never have allowed it through, and the regulations/guidance, although vague, do seem to back that up.

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