Will SFE pay the childcare grant after you've graduated?

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Has anyone had any dealings with SFE for the childcare grant late in the year?

The deadline for getting the forms in is 9 months after your course starts, which I did, just, sending them details of money spent on childcare while studying. I have now graduated.

SFE have written to me saying they are stopping my payments as I am "no longer in attendance on my course". But of course I am no longer in attendance - I just graduated!

I met their deadlines, surely I am entitled to the money?

(Incidentally one of their people told me there was no deadline at all on the phone - that's patently not true, but it's what they said.)

I'm working long hours the next few days so might not get a chance to call them.

Has anyone else had dealings with them over this?

Hopeful bump

Do you mean to reclaim the money you spent on childcare or to pay childcare for you now you have graduated?

No, in your last year of University they only fund up to term three. e.g. when your course ends.

They don't fund your childcare after you've graduated.

Why would anyone fund childcare once you have graduated? Or back pay money for fees which you didn't require at the time?