Has your loan arrived?

Rikki

andyrules wrote: »

If you are lucky enough to make contact with a person!! Have given up going through the options (tried several - none lead to a human who picks up). Rang my LA and they sighed in despair about it. DD has been unable to register on the correct day for the 2nd year running. :mad:

Perhaps we should all apply for our loans NOW for next year? That would give them a better chance surely. :rolleyes:

I don't use the 0845 number. I have a local number for my county's Student Finance office.

andyrules

Is it your Student Services, as our local LA one is called, or a branch of slc? My Student services are v helpful but in the end can only read out what the slc has done, or not, or said they've done!

Swirlywurly

My LEA has been taken over by a pilot centre, so now local people to hassle for my loan.

It's bloody annoying.

CrispyUK

andyrules wrote: »

If you are lucky enough to make contact with a person!! Have given up going through the options (tried several - none lead to a human who picks up).

Try not pressing anything - a lot of touch tone systems will prompt you a couple of times and then connect you to an operator on the assumption your phone doesn't support tone dialling.

andyrules

CrispyUK wrote: »

Try not pressing anything - a lot of touch tone systems will prompt you a couple of times and then connect you to an operator on the assumption your phone doesn't support tone dialling.

Yes, tried that, but it takes you through menu again, and as I was at work was on mobile. My LEA said that today they were not answering the phones anyway and there was a block on accounts. I certainly couldn't get into either mine or DD's during office hours, but could very early morning.

Tom30_2

Hi all,

I enrolled at uni on monday (well i got my student card, timetable, ment my personal tutor etc i think thats enrolling? :P ) and i took my letter in for the loan/grant (the one that says you need to take it to enrolment or whatever) and i showed it to 4 of the teachers there and none of them knew what to do with it and said that they didnt need it - sounded to me like they didnt know what to do with it does this sound right? or do they deffonatly need somthing from this letter for me to get my money?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Rikki

Tom30 wrote: »

Hi all,

I enrolled at uni on monday (well i got my student card, timetable, ment my personal tutor etc i think thats enrolling? :P ) and i took my letter in for the loan/grant (the one that says you need to take it to enrolment or whatever) and i showed it to 4 of the teachers there and none of them knew what to do with it and said that they didnt need it - sounded to me like they didnt know what to do with it does this sound right? or do they deffonatly need somthing from this letter for me to get my money?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

I'm sorry, I just had to highlight this word. I have written it out that may time as a spelling error it is engraved on my memory.

Definitely, definitely, definitely........... it started off with just three times, untill it was a whole page :eek:

I am so brain washed I can never spell this word wrong ever again.:whistle:

NickiM

I got a letter yesterday saying if I took it to Durham then I would get my loan (*I think*)

KizzyK_2

I had to hand mine into student services. They checked my ID card and wrote my student number on the letter and said it'll be with me in 3 to 5 days. Im living off my student overdraft until then.

I didn't hand it in until Wednesday, if I had known it was gonna take 5 days I would have gone in on Monday to do everything :rolleyes:

bestpud

Just receieved my schedule and mine is being paid in Monday - the day we start back (third year). I was a few days late getting my application in this year but I don't know of that had any impact or not - will have to compare with some more organised peeps!