I'm having issues with finding the answer to my questions about student finance, nobody in my sixth form leadership team can answer them and I really have no idea what to do about it.
Basically, one of my parents is currently on sick leave and has gone down to half pay, so thats one of my issues; do I enter the household income as what it is with the half salary or not?
My other issue is that it doesnt look likely that that parent will be returning to work, so we will go down to just one salary. Using the student income calculator for this, I worked out that I would get the full grant amount (for study outside London and living away from home) and the corresponding loan amount as our household income would be under £25000. By the time we go down to the single salary however, the deadline for student finance would have passed. SO...I have no idea what to enter as my household income, as it may change before and after the deadline for student finance.
I know thats a lot to take it...I guess you can see why I'm confused, I just dont want to get to uni and not have the right amount of money as I wont be supported financially from home.
Thanks.