Parental Contribution to Daughter's university loan.

lorena

Maybe if you explain to your daughter the situation? I agree that it shouldn't automatically be expected but maybe thats just due to it being the first time she moves away from home. Hopefully you get on ok with SAAS, they seem to enjoy making my life harder lol

I do disagree with some of the replies to this thread though.
Note: this is not intented to insult the OP. My parents pay my rent for me each month because they know that even including my part time job (min wage) and my loan I couldn't afford it. I do know the value of money and I don't ask my parents for exta money unless I get desperate.
I don't like taking their money, I feel horrible about it but there's little I can do. I realise I am lucky but I'm not spoilt. Just because I get money from my parents doesn't mean I don't know the value of money and I don't work hard at my job and do overtime. You can't judge until you know the other side of the story.
SAAS to me are a joke! They are completely out of touch with how much it costs to live these days

Savvy_Sue

codygirl wrote: »

Hope you don't mind me side lining this thread. I have just applied for help with funding for my daughter. She has received a loan for £915 only for the year ( £21.00 per week). We are still waiting to here if and what her bursary will be, but when we were researching it we understood it to be enough to cover her halls of residency rent (£88 per week) for the year. I am seperated from her father who refuses to contribute and am at college myself, so on a very low income. I am just wondering why she is getting lesss than the £150 you mentioned.

I understand that because there is a frightful backlog, the loans company are sending everyone details of what they'd get if they weren't declaring income, which gets the minimum, even if they DID declare income and should be getting a lot more.

I think it was from this thread that I got that gem!

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I did not get any financial help from my parents when I went to Uni (in Scotland). I applied for loans and grants and I worked the whole way through my degree.

I never needed to be financially dependant on my parents, although they did help me with books and other necessary bits and bobs at the begining of the year.