students job seekers allowance

LittleSnowBear

Well when I spoke to my university they told me otherwise and calculated my budget due to the amount of weeks in the academic year.

olly300

LittleSnowBear wrote: »

Well when I spoke to my university they told me otherwise and calculated my budget due to the amount of weeks in the academic year.

What did they say you can live on during the summer?

Oldernotwiser

Prudent wrote: »

I now worry about the cost of sending my daughter to uni next year. The expectations are so high. As a single parent, I have only managed to save £3000 towards her costs. I am really worried she will miss out on all the fun I had at uni because students live a far more expensive lifestyle, which I cannot fund for her.

Unless you're a very well paid lone parent, your daughter should be eligible for all the student funding available which should mean that she will manage perfectly well without any need for her to use your savings, except possibly in emergencies. If she gets a few hours of part time work she should do brilliantly.

Have you looked at all the funding that she'll be eligible for?

The_One_Who

LittleSnowBear wrote: »

Well when I spoke to my university they told me otherwise and calculated my budget due to the amount of weeks in the academic year.

Well, then your university is wrong. What did you expect to live on during the summer months? Especially during this economic climate.

LittleSnowBear

they told me to get a job, they do not calculate any budgets involving the summer months as it is outside the "academic year" they have a summer fund available but only lone parents are elligable

The_One_Who

"The loan for living costs covers 52 weeks from the first day of the academic year of your course, except in a final year of study for which there are special rates." Taken from the student loan info on the SAAS site.

Most students are now expected to get jobs. Welfare support does not apply since you are still technically a student and so won't appear on unemployment stats either.

LittleSnowBear

They divided all my loans etc by 39 (weeks in academic year) to get my weeky income.

MrsManda

LittleSnowBear wrote: »

Sometimes students fall in to some kind of gap where you unelligable for anything during the summer months as the student loan and the ALF (ours anyway) is worked out due to the amount of weeks within the academic year, supposingly during the summer students who have problems finding a job must cease to exist at the end of july until the end of september. Any summer funds at my uni go to single parents only and as I had to pay tuition fees out of my own loan this year it makes me 3grand down before starting which according to the university does NOT count as an expense so they insist I am three grand better off.

The university doesn't count tuition fees for UGs as an expense as you should be able to claim a loan for these costs. They can't afford to give funds to students who don't/can't get a loan to cover their fees.

LittleSnowBear

I understand that perfectly its not a particularly a problem as I knew this before I went (I get the tuiton fee loan next year anyway) its just the summer that is the issue I am looking for a job at the moment, I am very bored sitting on my bum at home never mind skint!

olly300

LittleSnowBear wrote: »

I understand that perfectly its not a particularly a problem as I knew this before I went (I get the tuiton fee loan next year anyway) its just the summer that is the issue I am looking for a job at the moment, I am very bored sitting on my bum at home never mind skint!

When I was a student in the 90's your loan and grant was divided by the entire 52 weeks to get your weekly income.

So while you were expected to go and get a job, if you couldn't for any reason then you just had to manage.