Studying and benefits

Dunroamin

alexandrajj wrote: »

Full degree years ago so in eligible for student loans.

In that case, you'll have to fully fund any further HE study, whether full or part time, distance learning or by attendance.

Sorry.

alexandrajj

Dunroamin wrote: »

In that case, you'll have to fully fund any further HE study, whether full or part time, distance learning or by attendance.

Sorry.

Thanks Dunroamin, that's as I thought. However my question was really about whether study will affect IS, ESA and DLA.!

Dunroamin

alexandrajj wrote: »

Thanks Dunroamin, that's as I thought. However my question was really about whether study will affect IS, ESA and DLA.!

They won't but the fact that you have access to between £9,000 and £27,000 will. Unless you have someone outside the household who'll pay the fees direct for you.

alexandrajj

Dunroamin wrote: »

They won't but the fact that you have access to between £9,000 and £27,000 will. Unless you have someone outside the household who'll pay the fees direct for you.

True! It was really a theoretical question with my pie-in-the-sky idea. It's frustrating to just have to sit here when I want to learn.

Voyager2002

alexandrajj wrote: »

True! It was really a theoretical question with my pie-in-the-sky idea. It's frustrating to just have to sit here when I want to learn.

Contact the Open University: they may well have ways to fund your tuition if that is the only problem.

Dunroamin

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Contact the Open University: they may well have ways to fund your tuition if that is the only problem.

The rules for OU funding are the same as for any other university although you can spread the cost over the year by opening an OUSBA.

https://css2.open.ac.uk/ousbaonline/landingpage.aspx

Dunroamin

alexandrajj wrote: »

True! It was really a theoretical question with my pie-in-the-sky idea. It's frustrating to just have to sit here when I want to learn.

You don't have to do a course to learn.

Have a look at the free Open Learn programme with the OU.

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

kingfisherblue

joed123 wrote: »

need some advice....
I claim dla (172.80 a month) , esa, (494.80 a month) housing benefit (500 a month for a one bed flat), and am in the support group..(diagnosed with a mental health condition - have had a series of lengthy spells in and out of hospital over the last 5 years ..approx 6 times of 3 months in and out)
I currently feel ok have been out of hospital for a year now, i also work less than under 16 hours permitted work rules (4 hours in a shop (1456 a year) and normally play about one paid gig once a week £2600 a year)
when you add all of this up.... it comes to 18,724 with no tax paid and not much work to do...

I have not been notified that i have to go for an assessment ( i have also read that as I’m in the support group i can go on claiming and working like this indefinitely...

However im starting to feel bad for claiming so much
BUT heres my dilemma...
I have a degree but its only a 2:2 in the general built environment hence im not qualified in particularly anything and would definitely struggle at the moment to get any job about 15,000 a year or above and it woudl be in an area i wouldnt enjoy.. so im getting (without working much..nearly 6,000 more than if i worked fullltime in a lousy min wage job assuming tid get 12-13000 fora bar job or call centre or something)

..i know i can get fees discount to get a postgrad degree and be qualified surveyor...but even a grad entry level job would pay from 18,000 to 21,000...but after tax this would be 15,000 to 17,000 this is still lower than when you add up what i earn at the moment...which is 18,724...and again i would be highly stressed and blown out from the job so im asking is it really worth doing anything?? it wouldnt be until i have worked for five or so years in the profession and a lot of hard work that i would start making anything like i get now for free!... as once your chartered surveyor you can make £25,000 + a year but with tax and student loan taken off would be about the same as what i get now! (18,700)

one of my passions is music and so i can quite easily write songs record and try and make a name for myself in my spare time at home in my flat...id much rather do that then work full tiome , be stressed and earn less than what i do now..!
but then its the social status of having a good job and what else that could bring such as benefits of travelling abroad with a world recognised qualification and what else i don’t know???

First of all, it is often easier to start your own thread rather than bring up an old thread.

Secondly - serious question. My understanding of being in the support group of ESA means that you have been found unable to work for health reasons, yet you are suggesting returning to study and working full time. Are you able to manage this? If yes, than you should presumably ask for a reassessment of ESA, because the implication is that you should not be in the support group. Or do you have a condition that is likely to improve over the next couple of years so that you will be able to return to work full time.

Please don't be insulted by my questions. I'm just struggling to understand why you are int he support group, yet consider yourself able to work full time in a job that you admit may be stressful.

tomtontom

kingfisherblue wrote: »

First of all, it is often easier to start your own thread rather than bring up an old thread.

Secondly - serious question. My understanding of being in the support group of ESA means that you have been found unable to work for health reasons, yet you are suggesting returning to study and working full time. Are you able to manage this? If yes, than you should presumably ask for a reassessment of ESA, because the implication is that you should not be in the support group. Or do you have a condition that is likely to improve over the next couple of years so that you will be able to return to work full time.

Please don't be insulted by my questions. I'm just struggling to understand why you are int he support group, yet consider yourself able to work full time in a job that you admit may be stressful.

joed has started a few threads, and admits she is fit for full time work