Student Finance Applications - Q & A

I'm not getting a loan, just the maximum Grant + tuition fee's paid. The SF website says I should've received a letter in February but I didn't get anything

Im applying for student finance, can i submit my application online then my parents finance details by post or does it all have to be either done by post or online?

everytime i go to check the offer theyve made me it keeps saying error. why? is there anything i can do besides calling them?

I havent been asked for any financial evidence is this right?
Also the loan they are giving me means minus my accommodation fees (of which i chose the cheapest possible at manchester) i am left with £11 a week to live on. My parents aren't giving me any money, how can this be right, should i just kill myself now seeing as i'm going to starve to death anyway............

Hi everyone, I need some help with student finance and it would be great if someone could help out, so basically, I'm in the middle of applying online and when it comes to my father's details, it says this:

Your father may already exist as customer with student finance.

Select continue and enter their Customer Reference Number

although the only person that has been to uni recently was my mum but this was 10 years ago, are my parents supposed to remember their customer ref number?
Really stuck and don't know what to do,

also do you need to firm before completing Student Finance and has everyone applied for a student bank account???

Thank you so much for your reply, but can my parents not register and support a full-time student finance application as theyre new parents to student finance? I'm unsure whether they have the details to student finance as they had to have a paper form because my mother went applied to uni 10 years ago

I had the same problem with both of my parents. They were on the system from when my brother applied 5-7 years ago, but had no details or emails registered on the system. Phone up Student Finance, they had to speak to both of my parents. Had both ref numbers given over the phone, and then they entered an email address for both (make sure you have a couple ready. Make temporary ones if one/both parents dont have emails ) & emailed a reset password & secret answer for both


I've got two problems now. The first is that we chose to add my mothers supporting application seperatly. It said it has emailed her about what to do, however, no email has arrived...signing on to her account & choosing the support application option doesn't give the option to support mine, while on my application, it does say they're now linked?

The second problem, or at least, I'm not sure if it's a problem or not. On the breakdown at the end, I get:

Maintenance Loan £3,575.00

Tuition Fee Loan £9,000.00


But no maintenance grant ? The household income entered so far is around 26k, so surley thats not too much not to get the grant ? Or doesn't the grant show on here?

Question: I'm on a gap year, and have been rejected from all my choices But I'm planning to get a place through Clearing. Can I (and if so, when) apply for student finance?

Those amounts are the basic loan amounts non-income assessed. You need to ring student finance and make sure you're applying for income-assessed.

The first is that we chose to add my mothers supporting application seperatly. It said it has emailed her about what to do, however, no email has arrived...signing on to her account & choosing the support application option doesn't give the option to support mine, while on my application, it does say they're now linked?

Ah ok, um, third time I've had to ring them now. Gotta say the online system is rubbish Cheers

Any idea on my other problem ?

Or, another phone job ?