Student Loan fees when kicked out of uni, says "before the first day"

Midnight_Tboy

Hey,

Without going to much detail (plenty of that on other thread in here)  My son was kicked out of uni, allegedly in October from what son says.

Anyways, I was made aware from others on here that the maintenance loan would need to be repaid immediately (well with an agreement made monthly), pro ratad.......and the tuition fee itself would probably be about 25% of the total year of the course

Anyway, so he's received a couple of seperate letters

One of which says 

You applied for student finance for academic year 2024/25, but your
university has advised that you have withdrawn from your course before the
first day of the first term. As it looks like you won't be going to
university or college this year, we've cancelled your student finance
application.

Now first day, that had me confused, he apparently did do registration (else I assume he'd have never received his first payments), and claims he attended his first bunch of lessons.

On a seperate thing, logging in he's been told he has an overpayment of the full amount of maintenance loan of (approx from memory) £3022 (so about 800-1000 more than I was expecting)

This has me wondering though.....and I cant see any indications of it when looking on the SLC website, does this mean then that the uni have decided to not charge any of this years tuition fee at all?  ie the 25% that I expected would be added

If so, then I think he may be slightly better off by about 1.5k in comparison because 25% of the 9k or so student fees for the year wont be added to his main loan bill?

If not however, I need to be getting him to chase why the full amount repayable if also saying he withdrew 'before' it.

I find it hard to believe that the uni would not be wanting to have charged this for his student loan.....only reasoning I can think, so as to not harm them stats wise on failed students if he never enrolled in the first place

I'm hoping its the best case scenario of course

silvercar

If slc have been told he didn’t register then it makes sense that they expect back everything they paid out.

This also has the advantage that if he decides to go to university in the future, this academic year won’t be considered as a year (or part year) of study.

beckstar1975

As far as SFE are concerned for fees a withdrawal within the first fortnight is the same as a no show, so no fees a due. The maintenance loan is different depending on when abed how much was paid before the withdrawal was actioned

Midnight_Tboy

Thanks 

I'm hoping this is likely the case as the worst of 2 evils, as works out a bit less to pay back (but over the longer term as it would've been only when he's earning Vs now)

I guess I'll only know for certain once he speaks to the SLC,  but I really hope that means he doesn't have to pay the 25% tuition fee, or if they do expect it then I'd be contesting to get the maintenance part reduced

Thank you, rubbish start to Xmas and the new year, hopefully can turn it around some point