low income students get money towards summer?

saver2006

my friend was telling me that independent or low income students (i.e. gets the full maintenance grant) get money towards supporting themselves through the summer- is this true?

seaweasel

Nope. At least I've never heard of that before, I'd be very surprised if it was true. It will depend on your LEA though so you might want to get in touch with them.

Gingernutmeg

As far as I know, it's not true. As an independent student I get a small grant (about £300 per term) but that's it, nothing specifically to cover the holidays. You're supposed to budget so that your grant/loan etc cover all year, and top it up with work

kr15snw

As a student on a full grant I get a £900 grant at the end of April. Which I think will cover me over the summer as we break up the first week of June (college is used for exhibitions). I also get the £700 loan at the same time.

Maybe this is what they meant? Like Gingernutmeg said we dont get dedicated money for it, but they give us enough to manage over it if you budet etc.

dexters_mum_2

I've not heard of that, I am on the very top level of awards and nothing like that has come my way!

dmg24

Sounds like your friend is talking to the Access to Learning Fund, however this is only really available if you are unable to work for certain reasons.

DrFluffy

It used to be true, however, as pointed out above this has been taken over by the Access to Learning fund, and is now only given out if you are both poor as hell and unable to get paid work (for one of a set list of given reasons).

bubblegum2

It is also known as the 'Summer Fund' its a few hundred pounds that covers you from July to Sept

I get it every year but I'm a 'poor' single parent