Student on universal credit

[Mima445]

I was told originally that during the holidays I would be entitled to UC as a student. After months of battling I've now been told I'm not and that they count the childcare grant as income so rather than taking £6000 into consideration they count another £8000 which is for childcare as income.

Does anyone know if this is correct? It seems bizaar to me that they consider this as income as this isn't income for me it's to pay for nursury so I'm left with £6k for the year?

Has anyone else been told this/ have any info on this please?

I presume you're not at uni etc during summer? If so you don't need childcare surely?

I have to keep paying during the summer as otherwise my daughter loses her place, it's one that runs all year only!

Although I've massively cut it down so it's a fraction of the price but even without including that it would l still mean I'm not entitled to anything since the childcare grant is a large amount. I'm just confused as to how they consider this income as its not going towards my household costs at all

This suggests they should be disregarded.

www.entitledto.co.uk/help/Student-income-Universal-Credit

@nobaggypants thank you, I'll question them on that as I'm getting different info everytime I call!