Student Loan Assessment Deadline: Apply by 29 June to guarantee on-time payment

MSE_Martin

Calling all full-time Higher Education students!

If you're planning to apply for student finance for 2007/08, you've until 29 June to submit your details for your payment to be guaranteed by the first day of term. This isn't to say you won't receive the funds if you apply after this date, but leave it until later and there's no promise as to when you'll get them.

How to apply

If you haven't already done so, contact your local LEA for an assessment booklet to be sent out to you. Alternatively, you can apply online (it's not as daunting as you'd imagine) by following the information on the Direct.gov website.

Haven't applied for a 2006/2007 loan yet?

There's time, but only a little. If you started this year's course less than nine months ago, you can still apply via your LEA.

To get the most out of the student funding options available, read the articles:

• Student MoneySaving: Funding, Borrowing And Living As A Student
• Student Loans: How To Use Them The MoneySaving Way
• Should I Pay Off My Student Loan?
• Top Student Bank Accounts 2006/07

Martin

LilMissEmmylou

thanks - i really need to remember to sort this!

Gemmzie

I do not recommend doing it online, the system is clearly very new and is awful

username

Gemmzie wrote: »

I do not recommend doing it online, the system is clearly very new and is awful

I can very much relate to that one. I don't know if you've had similar problems, but when you get onto the screen

angecull31

I am soooo scared!!!! I have filled in all the forms without any problems but what gets to me is that I absolutely hated school and now nearly 19 years after I left school I have signed up to do a 4 year course doing Fashion Design & Manufacture!!!! I think that I just might be going a little bit mad and am getting worse every time that I think about it!!! LOL!!!

soco1

Gemmzie wrote: »

I do not recommend doing it online, the system is clearly very new and is awful

Not exactly new. I've sorted my student finance online for the past 2 yrs, this will be my 3rd time.
It works fine, I've had no problems.

Be brave Angecull you'll have a fab time, I waited 23 yrs after leaving school before embarking on a 4 yr forensic science degree course.
I still think I'm mad but half way there now!

ka7e

GRRRR! After weeks of nagging, DD finally has her forms all ready to post. Now she realises she has to include her passport, which she needs for her holiday this week. She won't be back in the UK until 29th June, so will miss the deadline.

juno

ka7e wrote: »

GRRRR! After weeks of nagging, DD finally has her forms all ready to post. Now she realises she has to include her passport, which she needs for her holiday this week. She won't be back in the UK until 29th June, so will miss the deadline.

You can take the forms and the passport into the offices yourself, and then they'll photocopy it and hand it back straight away

antoniomontana

the online system is an absolute shambles, isn't even working properly at the moment with error messages everywhere, the support staff in scotland are hopeless too

Rardin

Is there anywhere in writing (onine for example) that it says it *guarantees* to pay your loan by the first day of term if you apply before 29 June?

We are having a nightmare experience with our LEA. We applied online back in March, did everything we were told to do, and our LEA is saying we may only be assessed for the smallest, non-income assessed, part of the loan now, and will be assessed for the rest of it after term starts. They also say we *must* sign the (partial) loan agreement now, or we won't get anything at all before term starts.

If I can find something in writing that says they must pay it if we apply on time (and goodness knows we did!), then at least I can put some pressure on them.

Thanks for any help

MoneySavingStudent_2

Hello,
I did my finance form in the little booklet and thought about doing it online (as it would be quicker) So i filled in the booklet as a bit of a practise and then started filling it in online which didnt take as long as i thought!

It is alittle complicated but if you read everything and print pages off to read them its quite simple!

I then got to the stage where i had to submit identification to prove who i was and who my mum was. Instead of sending my passport in the post, we just went down to the place it told us to send them to (as it finds the closest one near you when you have completed the online application) which was just in the centre of town and we asked if we could just have them photocopied while we wait!

The lady was very nice and photocopied everything and gave us one last small form to fill in and everything was done!
Because there is a short time left to get the forms in, maybe you can try going down to your local finance place and sorting it out too! We sorted it with time to spare!! Thought i would just give a tip incase anyone was freaking out!

Christie (MoneySavingStudent!)

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