How do I afford to live at uni???

I've been given an unconditional offer at Brighton and I was over the moon at first, but then I used the student finance calculator and it's saying I'm entitled to a £9k maintenance loan. The cheapest accommodation there is £166 a week, that's £664 a month, almost £8k a year. How do I feed myself? How the f**k do I live on £1k a year? I'm from a low-income family, I can't work due to disability reasons, I already get Universal Credit but I doubt I'd be able to afford to live still, let alone live comfortably. I don't know what to do, please help!

I would like to stress that I'm totally new to all of this and all the processes I have to go through to apply, UCAS alone was confusing to me. I don't know the reality of living at university yet so please be kind and offer any advice you can!

Looking at https://www.brighton.ac.uk/accommodation-and-locations/university-accommodation/index.aspx
the costs don't seem as high as that unless you have a 50-week tenancy.

University students aren't eligible for universal credit as far as I'm aware. I'm currently on universal credit but not a student.

Okay, just realised I worked it out for a full year rather than 39 weeks... Ffs! Okay, so for their most expensive accom at Moulsecoomb it's £8,034, but I'm obviously not going to go for that!! So that's a little less... stressful, should average at around £6.5k a year for accom, leaving around £2.5k left to live on. That's soooo much better lmao. Hopefully if I still get Universal Credit at uni (which is a whole other kettle of fish I have no idea about) I should be able to live relatively comfortably

... due to disability reasons...

Are you eligible for DSA?
https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowance-dsam
https://www.ucas.com/student-finance-england/disabled-students-allowance

Yes, I should be eligible for DSA, but I'm not entirely sure what that can cover? Govuk is really vague about it. Because I'm assuming they don't just give you the money?

As far as I can tell, DSA is for specific adjustments you might need, like travel costs or technology you'd need to study, unfortunately from the info I've found you cant use it for general living costs

I've been given an unconditional offer at Brighton and I was over the moon at first, but then I used the student finance calculator and it's saying I'm entitled to a £9k maintenance loan. The cheapest accommodation there is £166 a week, that's £664 a month, almost £8k a year. How do I feed myself? How the f**k do I live on £1k a year? I'm from a low-income family, I can't work due to disability reasons, I already get Universal Credit but I doubt I'd be able to afford to live still, let alone live comfortably. I don't know what to do, please help!

I would like to stress that I'm totally new to all of this and all the processes I have to go through to apply, UCAS alone was confusing to me. I don't know the reality of living at university yet so please be kind and offer any advice you can!

The best solution to the problem for me was accepting another offer. I decided to go to York St. John instead, fell in love with the area and the campus tbh. Good luck though! You're going to need it with this cost of living crisis...

The best solution to the problem for me was accepting another offer. I decided to go to York St. John instead, fell in love with the area and the campus tbh. Good luck though! You're going to need it with this cost of living crisis...

I looked into it, Varley park seems like a good place. But I take it you've given up with Brighton? If you haven't I suggest looking into Varley park, it's much cheaper. Though it's just a little over a half hour walk from the campus, there is a bus but I don't know how expensive it is. I think they put out a free bus for students, it didn't say if it was still going in September 2023

Did you end up applying for DSA? I had my assessment recently and I really suggest going for it