Lying to get a gift year

My friend has dropped out of uni and says she will keep her maintenance loan by lying about re-applying next year (with no intention of re-applying) to get a 'gift year'. Is this possible? :/ I told her it was a stupid idea...

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Reply 1

Mimsycrafts

Everyone gets a gift year in case they choose the wrong course, get ill etc

Reply 2

kawaiibaebae

Original post by Mimsycrafts

Everyone gets a gift year in case they choose the wrong course, get ill etc

She said she had no intention of re-applying which I'm assuming is the only reason someone can have a gift year (otherwise they want the full loan back immediately). She is basically a mess.

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Reply 3

Mimsycrafts

Yeah that wont work once she leaves they will ask for the money back. Even if she intends to return.

Reply 4

spotify95

Original post by kawaiibaebae

No, that isn't possible, because SFE will know and want all of that money repaying. Lying like that (to earn money) is basically a means of fraud, so most certainly will not work.

Reply 5

581371

Original post by kawaiibaebae

Yeah but she has no intention of re-applying which is the only reason you can have a gift year (otherwise they want the full loan back immediately) and is getting an apprenticeship

I assume she won't be sitting her exams? At the end when she gets removed from failing, the uni may or may not inform student finance. In which case she'l have to pay it back in instalments. Even if they don't, she'll end up repaying it anyway

Reply 6

kawaiibaebae

Original post by spotify95

No, that isn't possible, because SFE will know and want all of that money repaying. Lying like that (to earn money) is basically a means of fraud, so most certainly will not work.

Thanks that is basically what I told her, I was worried it wasn't legal and a terrible idea. I don't know why she went to uni in the first place.

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Reply 7

Origami Bullets

She won't get a maintenance loan unless she's in full time study, regardless of her intention to reapply.

In any case, by dropping out during first year she's already used up her gift year.

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Reply 8

Clearing and Applications Advisor

Loan and grant payments only go through each term when a university confirms a student's attendance.

If she doesn't turn up after Christmas she won't get any further instalments and the SLC will know she is eligible to repay.

Reply 9

jonathanemptage

Original post by kawaiibaebae

it's called fraud she's looking at a 2-7 year holiday or a large fine and community service payed for by your taxes basically it against the law and if caught (she most likely will be if she's dumb enough to tell anyone) she will have a criminal record.