[joefoxon]

I sent my student finance application well before the deadline, it took them until two weeks before to send it back telling me nothing about what was wrong with it.

I sent it back, completed and checked, and they have still not processed it. I don't want to lose out on money through no fault of my own. I have no savings, so I need the money on time, or I can't pay the rent on my accommodation. What can I do?

[chinaberry]

Have you sent off all the evidence/got your parents to fill everything out?

Sorry but sometimes you have to bear the brunt of other people's mistakes, just because it's not your fault doesn't mean they'll care. Contact your firm and see what they can do. I'm 99% positive that there's no way this is going to stop you from going to uni if you get the grades.

[joefoxon]

I live away from my parents, and I'm on benefits, so I was only asked to send off my birth certificate as they already have me on record. They had a problem with the countersignature form, although they didn't tell me what it was...

[CarlitosWayz12]

Your not the only one, I did the application, they asked for evidence which I gave about parents income blah blah which they asked for... no problems... all this done before the deadline... then they sent me a letter after the deadline saying I needed to do the PM1 form instead.. and deleted the entire application. So I have to do the form handwritten and everything else AGAIN.

Your not the only one....

[KKKKatie]

I had to change my application in August because i was going to a different uni and the money has come in fine, so i'm sure you'll be okay!

[joefoxon]

But changing the uni doesn't affect the money you get.

[CarlitosWayz12]

(Original post by KKKKatie)
I had to change my application in August because i was going to a different uni and the money has come in fine, so i'm sure you'll be okay!

When did you receive the money?? During freshers at the start or like weeeks/month later??

[Blazara]

The deadline is essentially a lie used to hurry people up because they don't want to deal with the large influx - my mother phoned up saying that she couldn't possibly provide the evidence before the 'deadline' because it wasn't released yet and they just said okay, it's not strict.

Last year my student finance wasn't fully sorted until the Christmas holidays - I still got my loan on time at all points.

[minimarshmallow]

Usually if you let the university know that you're having troubles with student finance they'll let you just pay the rent when your money arrives. As soon as you get your UCAS confirmation letter you can go open a student account with an overdraft to cover your living expenses while you've got no money and then it'll be cleared when your money goes in and you can always ask them to remove it if you don't want to have it as a permanent thing.
Student finance are a pain, but you can manage if they're a little bit late.

[joefoxon]

If the universities know that student finance are a bit useless, why don't they put pressure on them to sort things out, especially as I'd imagine it costs the uni to allow you to pay at a later date.

[sd308]

(Original post by joefoxon)
If the universities know that student finance are a bit useless, why don't they put pressure on them to sort things out, especially as I'd imagine it costs the uni to allow you to pay at a later date.

I currently work in the Accommodation department at Bath University, and I can say as a general rule for all uni's you just have to email us or come in and see us and we have no problem postponing payment until your loan arrives. It is a problem we know a lot of students have through not fault of your own, so don't worry

[Monkeysuit.]

They've done the same to me, I sent the informatiOn required and they asked for more. I don't have anything else so I'm going to ring up tomorrow.

[joefoxon]

(Original post by sd308)
I currently work in the Accommodation department at Bath University, ... you just have to email us or come in and see us and we have no problem postponing payment until your loan arrives.

Even if I'm going to York?

I still worry about living costs too though, I've struggled to get by as it is on benefits. When I start uni, I lose that money, so I'll have actually nothing to live on until student finance comes through.

[sd308]

(Original post by joefoxon)
Even if I'm going to York?

I still worry about living costs too though, I've struggled to get by as it is on benefits. When I start uni, I lose that money, so I'll have actually nothing to live on until student finance comes through.

With such a skill at misquoting, I do hope you are following in my footsteps and are due to start a Politics degree As for living costs I have to highly recommend getting a job. Student jobs (on or off campus) really are easy to come by, and if you look at other threads you will see the one problem with graduates is that they do not realise the benefit of having work experience until it is too late. A job gives you beer money yes, but also great experience that will help you after you graduate.

[joefoxon]

I did study Politics at AS, one of the more memorable moments was creating the poster of Nick Clegg dressed as Freddie Mercury singing 'I want to raise fees...' :P

I'm actually going to do Physics, so I'll be putting my misquoting skills to religious people instead

[KKKKatie]

(Original post by CarlitosWayz12)
When did you receive the money?? During freshers at the start or like weeeks/month later??

week after freshers after you've registered at the uni, same time as everyone else

[minimarshmallow]

(Original post by joefoxon)
Even if I'm going to York?

I still worry about living costs too though, I've struggled to get by as it is on benefits. When I start uni, I lose that money, so I'll have actually nothing to live on until student finance comes through.

Well Lancaster do it, so I imagine York would do (they seem to do a lot of things similarly). You'd go to your college's accommodation office and they'll sort it out.

Like sd308 said, you could get a job to cover living costs, or like I said earlier if you open a student account they'll often give you an overdraft which you can use just to tide you over till your money gets in.