Dreadful DSA asessemnt

I never originally planned to go to uni, I was going to do a HND at a college where I did not need DSA . This got cancelled on August 13th and I was left with only 2 options. One travel 30 miles to the another college that offered a HND that started in Early September or BSc at local university which I had not consider before. At this short notice there just was not enough time to sort out my support. As a visual learner I know that uni is not for me. I do no process verbal information
I hope will be able sort a HND course for next year.

Student finance is very stressful

I agree with you, the DSA part was a nightmare for me having to send information to the DSA team who the tell you to make an appointment at a assessment center , then you required to send on everything to them and fill in a pre assessment form. They should be paying me for all the admin i had to undertake. then the assessor turned up 10 min late and then it was really a case of him filing in his computer program trying to make it seem the whole process was not as fake as it really was!

and on top of that this year i had to cope with ESA and atos assessment this year, and i waited 11 months for the atos/ maxius assessment i was in there 10 mins with a assessor who had a indian accent and spoke so fast i could not understand a word , luckily i had my carer with me, so never gone alone, and i was placed in the ESA support group for that , but applying for ESA that's is lots of forms to complete . i got indefinite for DLA last year but like may i waiting for another brown thing to come though my door for yet another assessment for PIP. when i am suppose to live??????

First I had a letter about the backdated money and then a second letter almost the next day saying I had been awarded £125 a week and how it would be played eg every 2 weeks on a Thursday and then I found out from Disabilityrights uk that as student finance was available to me , I would have to accept the maintenance loan because if you don't they treat you like you have with regard to deducting you ESA. so you have no choice but to accept more debt, on top of that I did get the special support grant which is not available from 2016/2017 due to government cuts.