student and now 60 years old

kenp60

I started uni last year (2016) at the age of 59. In May this year (2017) I had my 60th birthday.

SFE now tells me that for my second year, my maintenance loan drops from £8600 (approx) to £3566 ' because I will be 60 on the first day of term'.

Difficult to get clarification but most information I have found re. funding refers to

'The first day of the first academic year of the course'. At this point I was 59.

As I do not and have been unable to secure a part time job to cover this, I will have to finish uni and declare bankruptcy, which is miffing me somewhat.

Anyone have an idea of what is correct?

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Declare bankruptcy! Why on earth would you need to do that?

agrinnall

_shel wrote: »

Declare bankruptcy! Why on earth would you need to do that?

Agreed, I've seen some overreactions on this forum in my time but that's one of the best!

kenp60

I have one outstanding debt. Without any income, I can't cover it.

Part time job. Sorted.

agrinnall

kenp60 wrote: »

I have one outstanding debt. Without any income, I can't cover it.

Part time job. Sorted.

But if that debt is student loan then with no income there is no loan repayment. Even with a part time job there's a good chance you won't have to repay anything.