Help Needed Urgently!!!

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  1. ElegantBarbie's Avatar
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    Help Needed Urgently!!!
    My situation is as follows, I have applied for university and wanted to know if I can lie to student finance and tell them that I am living away studying in London but not with parents and get 6k and also apply for the maintenance grant so I can receive a total of 9k something a year. But I would actually be living at home with my parents and attending uni regularly. How does that sound? Crazy?
  2. MoonGazer's Avatar
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    Re: Help Needed Urgently!!!
    Not really, no, if they find out you've lied to them if it all went through successfully somehow, they would probably just make you pay any overpayments back to them immediately as you'd basically be defrauding them.
  3. controlsx2's Avatar
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    Re: Help Needed Urgently!!!
    As above said if they find out you will have to pay the extra back but there is no real way to prove it i've never had to give them any proof of me not living at home they just take your word for it.
  4. laura1234's Avatar
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    Re: Help Needed Urgently!!!
    If for some reason they did find out (after you started unj) you could say that you moved out didn't like it and moved back home again, and as they had already paid you your first loan instalment you didn't think you needed to tell them?
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