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Student finance Eligibility

In the year 2023-2024 I applied for student finance as a migrant worker and everything went fine but after I quit my job I reapplied for student finance in the year 2024-2025 as the child of a migrant worker using my father's employment and payslips. This was fine and I received my first 2 payments but on February when they asked for evidence for employment and I gave them my father's payslips they removed my funding because they said that I was still the migrant worker and the payslips didn't match and this is weird to me because I clearly reapplied using my father's details for this year.

Currently I've sent multiple cover letters explaining that I am not working anymore so I'm not eligible to be a migrant worker and that I applied as the child of a migrant worker for this year and SFE has been refusing me saying "I cannot change back the status to being the child of a migrant worker " which is absurd to me because when I reapplied that's what I asked and they approved it.

I find it hard to believe that the documents I've sent in 2024 June with my father's name were somehow misunderstood as my name furthermore the fact that I received the first 2 payments based on his payslips should suggest that SFE was aware of the change.

I don't really know what to do now and I really need the funding as I am not working and having troubles finding work during my last year of University

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Original post by Zaphir
In the year 2023-2024 I applied for student finance as a migrant worker and everything went fine but after I quit my job I reapplied for student finance in the year 2024-2025 as the child of a migrant worker using my father's employment and payslips. This was fine and I received my first 2 payments but on February when they asked for evidence for employment and I gave them my father's payslips they removed my funding because they said that I was still the migrant worker and the payslips didn't match and this is weird to me because I clearly reapplied using my father's details for this year.
Currently I've sent multiple cover letters explaining that I am not working anymore so I'm not eligible to be a migrant worker and that I applied as the child of a migrant worker for this year and SFE has been refusing me saying "I cannot change back the status to being the child of a migrant worker " which is absurd to me because when I reapplied that's what I asked and they approved it.
I find it hard to believe that the documents I've sent in 2024 June with my father's name were somehow misunderstood as my name furthermore the fact that I received the first 2 payments based on his payslips should suggest that SFE was aware of the change.
I don't really know what to do now and I really need the funding as I am not working and having troubles finding work during my last year of University

Hi Zaphir,

It would be best to access your account so we can see what's happened here, can you try sending us a live chat on your account? One of our team will be able to help.

Thanks, Graeme

https://www.gov.uk/student-finance-register-login

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