How can I increase my SFE?!
Hi, I don’t know if anyone can help me or has been through something similar.
I’m in my final year of midwifery and SFE lowered my maintenance loan by 3K this year. When I queried it they told me they don’t fund us for the summer even though I explained on my course we don’t get a summer!!!!!!!
I’m struggling MASSIVELY with finances. I’ve only just been able to pay my rent this month which has left me with £100 in the bank.
I’ve been on a job search for months as I knew this would be an issue but I keep getting rejected. I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t even do bank mca shifts at my trust because we’re over staffed.
I’m starting to worry that I won’t have any money when the maintenance loan stops and the bursary stops in the time between me finishing and starting a job (if I even get one especially with the job crisis for midwives). I’m low on birth numbers at the moment and know that I will have to extend which will then cause me being out of work for longer.
With that, has anyone had to extend and been granted further sfe? Many of the girls in the last cohort extended into October/ November due to the high demand for birth numbers as our hospital has 5 different uni’s worth of third years trying to get births. And on top of that, I don’t drive and it’s an hour trip to my placement hospital so I’m paying £18 a day to travel, which I know we claim back but if I’m extending I’ll be on placement for like 3 months straight
I want to move out of my house and go into hospital accommodation to save on costs leaving my partner to move in with his parents 🤦🏻*♀️ I just feel like I’m digging myself a hole being on this course.
Any advice would be amazing. I really really need some advice 😕
I’m in my final year of midwifery and SFE lowered my maintenance loan by 3K this year. When I queried it they told me they don’t fund us for the summer even though I explained on my course we don’t get a summer!!!!!!!
I’m struggling MASSIVELY with finances. I’ve only just been able to pay my rent this month which has left me with £100 in the bank.
I’ve been on a job search for months as I knew this would be an issue but I keep getting rejected. I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t even do bank mca shifts at my trust because we’re over staffed.
I’m starting to worry that I won’t have any money when the maintenance loan stops and the bursary stops in the time between me finishing and starting a job (if I even get one especially with the job crisis for midwives). I’m low on birth numbers at the moment and know that I will have to extend which will then cause me being out of work for longer.
With that, has anyone had to extend and been granted further sfe? Many of the girls in the last cohort extended into October/ November due to the high demand for birth numbers as our hospital has 5 different uni’s worth of third years trying to get births. And on top of that, I don’t drive and it’s an hour trip to my placement hospital so I’m paying £18 a day to travel, which I know we claim back but if I’m extending I’ll be on placement for like 3 months straight
I want to move out of my house and go into hospital accommodation to save on costs leaving my partner to move in with his parents 🤦🏻*♀️ I just feel like I’m digging myself a hole being on this course.
Any advice would be amazing. I really really need some advice 😕
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