Why has my son's student finance been approved?

[TeeBee]

Just received a letter from Student Finance to say that my son's loan has been approved for this year. However, he had to get a regrade on one of his results, that was sent through late by the exam board, so he lost his place at uni because of it (don't even get me started on that one!!). So why has he now received this letter? Surely the uni would have told student finance he hasn't taken up the place? Or do I have to do that?

Never had to jump through these hoops so not sure what I'm supposed to do.

@TeeBee sorry to hear your DS lost his place at uni. What a total PITA.

No, the responsibility for informing SFE (or the equivalent) of any changes with their initial application lies with the young person concerned, so you need to get your DS to get in touch ASAP.

However, I'm pretty confident that if your DS doesn't register with the university he's in theory supposed to be attending (as per his SFE application), the SFE first payment won't be triggered.

Best to be proactive though!

Dd had to cancel hers before registration.

I had this last year - if DS doesn't register on the course, the payment won't be triggered. I didn't phone up.

You have to cancel the finance - nothing to do with the University. And it’s him that has to do it, not you, as he’s the recipient, doubt very much they’d communicate with you instead of him. DD chose to defer and cancelled finance (which took weeks as they’re son overloaded) but we still got a letter saying ‘Your finance has been approved’ but the amount approved was ‘0’

Best to be proactive though!
Oh yes, meant to add, we thought it probably wouldn’t get triggered but best to sort it in case it did go wrong.

Great, thanks everyone. I thought it would automatically not be paid as he hasn't enrolled but yes, I'll get him to cancel it.

Given that loan payments are made to students before term starts usually, and continuing students often enrol late, the loan company has no way of knowing at the very beginning of the year that the student hasn't re-enrolled. Once the uni tells them (and they will in due course) they will ask for this instalment of his loan to be repaid.

Actualy @titchy students don’t usually receive their funding until 3-5 days after their course start date when they are fully registered on their course and the Uni has confirmed their attendance.

But no harm in your DC ringing to inform funding provided to cancel any funding he has been allocated for this year just to be sure.

@Gizmo98765

Actualy *@titchy* students don’t usually receive their funding until 3-5 days after their course start date when they are fully registered on their course and the Uni has confirmed their attendance.

But no harm in your DC ringing to inform funding provided to cancel any funding he has been allocated for this year just to be sure.

That's not true. They get it on the first day term starts, as informed by the uni. A lot of unis regard the beginning of freshers/induction week as the first day of term. They really aren't expected to let SLC know about attendance for a good few weeks after that!

@titchy is correct…I used to get finance on my birthday week (mid September) and get two weeks of fun on my finance before lecturers actually started

He can cancel his finance online through his SFE account, takes two seconds