How much money will you be living off per week at uni?

Well my loan comes up £1000 short of my accommodation costs because of the stupid means tested system so my parents have to make that up. And they'll be giving me about £80 a week to live on. Isn't it great how people are actually punished for earning too much money

I will be receiving a bursary of £7000 per year from the University,.

I just as it happens worked this out earlier on....

I will be receiving a bursary of £7000 per year from the University, on top of a £3,400 grant from the student finance. I've therefore chosen not to take out any student loans apart from the tuition fee status.

I'm also eligible for a £1000 a year bursary, with this in consideration I will recieve £11,400 a year, my accommodation is £4945 which leaves me with approx £124 a week to live on. However i'll take a job alongside so I can save money.

I do understand that i'm in a very fortunate position and the bursaries I have applied for are based upon my household income which is below £16,000. I will receive nothing from my mam and my dad has never paid a penny in his life for me, so i'm literally on my own with finance, so i'm very grateful for the bursary.

Everything I have to pay for - rent, bills, food etc is covered from work. So I have whatever is left from my wages plus my entire student loan as disposable income. Which is an awful lot considering I get the maximum grant and a bursary from the university. As this is my final year i'm going to save as much as I can this year incase I end up on the graduate scrapheap. I have zero intention of moving back home.



Wow, and I thought the £1500 my university gives me was generous

The contrasts on this thread are staggering. It's either one extreme or the other.

Its such a shame isn't it, you're clearly so hard done by. You still get more money than someone on a low income with the full grant.

The fact you parents have the ability to and are clearly willing to support you with as much as £80 a week to live off leaves you no reason to moan!

Feel sorry for those with parents that earn a liveable wage and cannot top up their children's maintenance loan.

You sound spoilt.

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You clearly didn't read the post above mine did you? Yeah I really seem better off...

Yes they have the ability and are willing but why should they have to?
My parents have both worked hard their whole lives to get a good job. They've already spent enough on my education to get me to uni and now they have to fund me through it too because they worked hard?
Why bother working hard when it seems you and your children are better off, or at least in the same position, when you don't bother?

There's a finite amount of money, in an ideal world every student would get a huge student loan but we don't live in an ideal world. Your parents can afford to give you plenty while you're at university meaning that the government don't have to, and can better allocate their resources, my parents cannot and if my student loan didn't cover my accommodation etc I would not be going to university, simple as that.

I find the amount of rich kids in this thread winging hysterical, so **** if you don't get a few more grand to study, I haven't had a holiday in about 10 years, I've worked since I was 16 and for three short years I'm going to be better off than you yet you complain, it's laughable.

You clearly didn't read the post above mine did you? Yeah I really seem better off...

Yes they have the ability and are willing but why should they have to?
My parents have both worked hard their whole lives to get a good job. They've already spent enough on my education to get me to uni and now they have to fund me through it too because they worked hard?
Why bother working hard when it seems you and your children are better off, or at least in the same position, when you don't bother?

Thing is bud, that people on here have a distorted version of reality.

Two parents at the peak of their earning on 26k =52k. No grant. around 4.5k loan. That is not rich. Comfortable is even pushing it. I would be pretty gutted to earn 26k when I'm pushing 60 in London.

That's my biggest gripe with the whole thing. People assuming that you're rich because you don't get a loan/grant.

I've worked since I was 16, haven't had a family holiday ever. Yet because your parents are broke and mine are careless and a little better off than you I suffer.

I worked full time for a year and earned around 18k. Anything below that is not a good salary in my book, yet I'm hearing off people within a household income of 12k with two 'working' parents?

This arguments just goes round and round. Seems like noone is able to see it from alternating viewpoints.

To be honest, I just think some people get too much. When you're able to save a couple of thousands of your loan per year, you're clearly getting too much. I'm quite content to live frugally like a student, but why do some people get £9000 per year incld uni bursaries? Are my parents meant to fork out an additional 5k across the year to level the playing field?