The Official 2009 Results Day Vomit Inducing Countdown Thread (20th August)

I think at the beginning of June. How often do they pay you? every term?

I sent my passport too it was returned safe and sound around 4-5 days later!

I think I've been lucky with student finance, my status says 'Approved' and I assume that means it's completed! I hope anyway.

Wow!
I wonder why I never got asked to send off a passport or other ID then. =/
Oh well! If i did, I'd phone and ask if they'd accept my old passport. (The one with a cute picture of me aged 11 or something. Beautiful!)

Edit: By 'cute' I mean horrible.

I'm currently waiting for the form that I need to sign and then return back to them. I checked my 'Correspondance' on their website; and noticed that they supposedly sent me mail on the 17th July, and I haven't received it.

I phoned up to check about it; informing them I'd not received anything to sign; and they've dispatched another copy; hopefully this one will arrive. [Supposedly sent out on Friday 7th Aug. so I should receive my Wednesday?]

Pass; if I don't have it by Friday I'll phone up and ask if I can print out the lovely image files they post in the correspondance thing online, write a covering letter to them with all my details and a signature!

Hold on I'll check.............<decides weather to log onto student finance or check letter.................checks letter>............they pay me 21st september for grant, 04 january for grant and 12 april for grant.......i get the full grant im not taking a maintenance loan, my bro managed without so i shall do without too, uni gets paid the tuition fees on the 03 feb and 05 may. Its funny I get paid in April when Uni is almost over then lol

Hold on I'll check.............<decides weather to log onto student finance or check letter.................checks letter>............they pay me 21st september for grant, 04 january for grant and 12 april for grant.......i get the full grant im not taking a maintenance loan, my bro managed without so i shall do without too, uni gets paid the tuition fees on the 03 feb and 05 may. Its funny I get paid in April when Uni is almost over then lol

I'm currently waiting for the form that I need to sign and then return back to them. I checked my 'Correspondance' on their website; and noticed that they supposedly sent me mail on the 17th July, and I haven't received it.

I phoned up to check about it; informing them I'd not received anything to sign; and they've dispatched another copy; hopefully this one will arrive. [Supposedly sent out on Friday 7th Aug. so I should receive my Wednesday?]

Pass; if I don't have it by Friday I'll phone up and ask if I can print out the lovely image files they post in the correspondance thing online, write a covering letter to them with all my details and a signature!

Did you have to apply seperately for the grant? My parents sent off there info, an thaught this was part of the grant process, but havent heard anythin from them =( an i know im entitled to some cus i did the calculator thing onthere website =(

yup thats you, you will get a letter in the post soon with your dates of payments on it, also this will be posted under the "payments" section on your student finance account on the website

I get the full grant too but it's only just under £3000 isn't it? That's no where near enough for me so I have to take the maintenance loan which is bigger for London students. I guess you factored in your work pay as well? Or money from your savings?

So they pay every term! It will be tempting not to spend it all in one go.

ahh yes that thing, we had the same problem, no they automatically do it for you, there is no "grant" form so they take your parents finance details and work out your grant and say they will pay you it, you don't need to apply for the grant, all done for ya well it was for me anyway lol

Wow!
I wonder why I never got asked to send off a passport or other ID then. =/
Oh well! If i did, I'd phone and ask if they'd accept my old passport. (The one with a cute picture of me aged 11 or something. Beautiful!)

Edit: By 'cute' I mean horrible.

Ahhh, thank you!
I was hoping something like that would happen...as the last thing I received was just confirming that I'd changed my bank details etc etc.

Aaaa thanx for that =) hopefully mine will sort itself out then =) =) =)

no no the full grant is more than 3 thousand! but under 4 thousand lol, you sure your getting the full grant? must be different for your student finance, I'm student finance NI. Yea I have a job and I'm tryin to save money too since I was 10 so I have a good wee bit saved

No probs, now thats what they sent me when my status changed to "approved" im just going by what happened to me, but should be same for you I'd imagine.

they are really a complete joke!!! yea it takes about a week for anything to arrive that they say has been sent. hopefully you will get it this time.

btw you can't you just print it off and send it?

Hey all! Gosh hearing about Student Finance, I am fearful Having a gap year Hopefully I'll do student finance in september