Applying for Uni 2019 Part 5: UCAS, offers and exam season looming

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ifonly4 it's a bit of a long shot booking train tickets already though. I would think of it as a total jinx. I'm anticipating that we will send stuff by some type of courier service (plus one grandma is planning on handing over many bottom drawer items to DS if he gets his firm choice uni). If need be we will use the coach .

IfOnly, where did you book a campervan from if you don't mind me asking?

I've always wanted to do that but it seemed very expensive last time I tried to find one...

Hello all . I have been following,but it has been very quiet in our house since ds firmed.
Lots of revision with no nagging which made me proud !
Alarm was set every morning over Easter holidays (9am and 9.30 am coffee ,breakfast ,shower and ready to start at 10 30 !!).
I have a question about student finance,which is finally geting done today !
I would be grateful if i could ask it in a PM if someone would not mind .
Thank you .

Bizzey welcome back. We've done the initial student finance bit but certainly not the submission of P60s, proof of pay, savings etc...Not sure when that happens (we completed the initial bit back in early March).

The student finance is quite quick, student fills in their bit, then if applying for maintenance loan emails are sent to each wage earner in the house, you click the link and then create username and password. Input the gross income and answer finance related questions eg interest from savings. My DS received confirmation of what he was receiving about a week later. It was really simple process.

When does the finance thing have to be done by? We have none of this evidence but presume we don't need to do that bit if we know we earn too much?
I find just the idea of form filling stressful.

Piggywas pushed... i saw something that said 24th May but ds said 10th. When we started the form it did say 10th..so go with that.
All done...i was expecting to add my bit today and was grateful i did not need to hunt out any stuff from 2017/2018 !.
Was not expecting the 2 other contact people ! That was the hard part 😀

He can't get into revision mood today ..so he is cooking dinner and gone out to get ingredients!!.
Accomidation will be done when he has food .
Anothet silly question .. (sorry ) does he have to do accomidation for insurance?

Accommodation..sorry clicked the wrong word !!

Oh, if it's 10th better get started!

What do you mean two other contact people??

Our household income is due to change (reduce significantly, think by £45k) in September which rather complicates things....

Piggy I think you can ask for it to be recalculated if circumstances change. But I think it would make things easier if you declared parental income at the initial application (even if your ds would only qualify for the minimum loan at present).

2 other contacts was 2 other people / 2 other addresses who they can contact if they can't get in touch with the student ....well that is how i undetstood it.
Address only needed but that person must be aware of you giving their details .
I gave my brother and my mum.
Hopefully i have not given them as guarantor of the loan !🤣

Thete was something about less income of 15% .. sorry skipped that bit as i knew it would not apply to me .

Yeah, I think the loan amount is figured out from the last full tax year. Thsi does make it awkward for anyone whose working years run September to July, for example. Basically , DH has resigned (on Friday!) so that's a big difference in household income. In terms of the loan, it might make about £2000 difference so not a drop in the ocean. I think I'll phone them up tomorrow, I guess.

I am one of those people who does not like to deal with money. I pay all the household bills and am good about loking at Go Compare etc annually for insurance and gas etc - but I have no involvemnt whatsoever in savings accounts, mortgage and so on. It's the one thing I leave to DH but he seems a bit passive about the student loan thing, oddly.

Wow ..your dh resigned !
(Teacher i thought?)
Think it is very unfair sf base loan on parental income from 1 and 1/2 years ago (2017/2018 )
I got caught out by this 30 ++ years ago.
My friends who were living at home got more money than me havigto liveawy from home with rent and bills to pay!

Yup, he has. It's a momentous decision and he is a) risk averse and b) an even worse procrastinator than me. this is where DS gets it from .

Wow ! .. i am bo expert .hence me akways asking questions!
But i really think you need to speak to SF.
Massive amount to lose from "the form filling".

Ha ha i cant even spell /type !!

The thing about another 2 contacts is not compulsory. We skipped it.

When I was a fiercely independent teen I hated that parental income was taken into account. My dd is doing medicine so NHS takes over to a certain extent from student finance after 4th year. She’s 22 now and they still want to know how much her parents earn. Overall she will get less next year so we will have to help out more than when she was 18. She will have less time to work too.

Not helpful that student finance England website is down just when DC has finally tried to log on to start the loan application process - Sunday may be a good day for them to process updates etc but surely it’s a peak time for students to access it? Shame they haven’t even got a sign saying when it next might be available ....

Is it? Bum. I've told dd that we are doing it today to stop her procrastinating.

Back after 8pm it says. We'll do it later.

Oh noo ..it had red astrix ext to it i thought..
Can we amend it and take them off .dot really want my brother and my mum involved in his finance stuff

Oh ds was doing his and said everything was slow .