For thinking that just becasue it is printed off a computer it doesn't make it any more valid.

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Someone at work has had a letter from the student finance people to say his dd's application can't be processed becasue his P60 is handwritten and can he please provide either a printed copy, a letter from his employer or a printed Week 53 payslip.

Whilst that is not a huge problem I am simply going to type a letter out using the figures from said handwritten P60 I think it is ridiculous that his dd's money application is being held up.

The P60 forms are sent from the tax office, we fill ours out by hand, some larger firms have fancy software that fills in the boxes.

Why is my tped letter or typed out payslip more valid?

It's not.

YANBU.

How bizarre. I just had to fill in a P60 and was told to print it off, fill it in and send it off. Wouldn't have occurred to me to do anything but hand write it!!

Student Finance are absolutely bonkers.

The last year DP was a student we dealt with a very small section who handle student parents. Having two people who we could ring up and talk things through and who take a lot more time over each application was absolutely divine.

They still had the odd software malfunction etc, but it is nowhere near as bad as my three years of student finance dealings. (Still indignant about them amalgamating my account with somebody else's with a similar address and trying to charge me for their degree!)

I guess it might be easier for someone to forge a handwritten P60. A printed one presumably has printed company details which are easier to check up on. Does seem a bit odd though.

Not really Mum, the handwritten one has the company details written in block capitals in a box, the printed one is exactly the same form. It is a hard copy which you have to either put through an old fashioned typewriter or have a template on the pc to fill in the boxes

The Student Loan Company operate from a far distant planet, based in a parallel universe somewhere. They are a bunch of incompetent nutters.

Funny thing, I had been waiting over a week for my new car insurance certificate, having recently had an accident, needed to insure and tax new car, waited for a week, nothing come, phoned insurers, they informed me they had emailed my documents, and im free to print a copy out to tax car

sorry just re read post, still a bit of info for ya