What to tell UC tomorrow?

[pleasedontoutmeguys]

So I finished my employment last Friday. I changed my work on my journal to say that I've finished working there.
This work I have started a university course. Unfortunately due to some complications I haven't officially enrolled at the university so I have no student status, no student email, no letter I can use for council tax purposes.
They are letting me attend lectures and seminars as there is the assumption that this will be sorted soon.
As soon as I changed my employment status to unemployed (albeit hopefully temporarily) they sent me an appointment to attend a meeting tomorrow in person. Not easy on a Saturday with two children in tow (single parent). I'm worried that it's going to look like I'm trying to defraud the system but I can't put a date on when I'm hopefully going to be a student. I did notify them of this ages ago and they said they can't change the system until I'm actually enrolled as a student.
My fear is being sanctioned as I don't have any pay checks coming in and obviously my loan etc is all dependent on when I am actually enrolled!

Don't universities start in September ?

Have you applied for your student loan ?

July is a very odd time of year to start a uni course. Surely though you've been communicating with the info via email about the situation so you have proof you're attending the course?

Lots of uni courses start at regular points throughout the year and operate rolling programs. OP I'd show them any emails related to your delayed enrolment and proof that you are attending lectures whilst your enrolment issues are being ironed out. Hopefully it can be taken into account.

I'd just ask the uni for an email from whoever told you to start attending lectures etc and use that as evidence. They may want to see you again further down the line but it should be fine!

They're very strict on evidence I'm worried emails won't be enough!

Why wouldn't an email and evidence you'd applied to student finance be enough evidence?

You don't need to worry about being accused of trying to defraud the system, you have plenty of evidence to show that you aren't.

I don't think they can sanction you for quitting your job because you quit for a genuine reason. They might try but I think you would win on appeal. A similar situation would be quitting your job to start a new job then the job offer being withdrawn.

I guess the issue is that if you aren't a student officially, you will have to make yourself available for work/apply for jobs to be able to claim UC until you are officially enrolled. Do you know how long it will take to sort out the situation with the university?

@Namechangeforanamechange I'm waiting on a DBS clearance as it's placement based. I'm chasing them but it's so slow

DBS is usually very quick but when it goes wrong...

I guess all you can do is take evidence of the DBS delay, that the university has told you to attend lectures etc.

They can't sanction you or accuse you of fraud. The only issue is you won't get student finance until you are enrolled and UC may require you to keep looking for work to get the full amount. I think it would actually be worse for you if they changed you to being a student because they would deduct the student loan payment that you haven't had from your UC payment. What a mess.