The Education (Student Fees, Awards and Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Amendment of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011

19.  For regulation 47(7) of the Student Support Regulations, substitute—

“(7) In this regulation—

A is the aggregate of—

(a) the residual income of the eligible student’s partner for the prior financial year;

(b) the residual income of the eligible student’s adult dependants for the prior financial year; and

(c) subject to paragraph (7B), (7C) or (7D), the net income of the eligible student’s dependent children for the prior financial year”.

Where the student begins the course before 1st August 2013, B is—

(a) £1,159 where the eligible student has no dependent child;

(b) £3,473 where the eligible student is not a lone parent and has one dependent child;

(c) £4,627 where the eligible student—

(i) is not a lone parent and has more than one dependent child; or

(ii) is a lone parent and has one dependent child;

(d) £5,792 where the eligible student is a lone parent and has more than one dependent child.

Where the student begins the course on or after 1st August 2013, B is—

(a) £6,159 where the eligible student has no dependent child;

(b) £8,473 where the eligible student is not a lone parent and has one dependent child;

(c) £9,627 where the eligible student—

(i) is not a lone parent and has more than one dependent child; or

(ii) is a lone parent and has one dependent child;

(d) £10,792 where the eligible student is a lone parent and has more than one dependent child.

(7A) For the purposes of paragraph (7), the current course is treated as beginning before 1st August 2013 in relation to a student “A” where —

(a) A transfers to the current course pursuant to regulation 7 on or after 1st August 2013 from a designated course beginning before 1st August 2013;

(b) the current course is a full-time honours degree course beginning on or after 1st August 2013 which, disregarding any intervening vacation, A begins immediately after ceasing to attend a full-time course mentioned in paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 2 or a full-time foundation or ordinary degree course, which started on or after 1st September 2012, having achieved a qualification; or

(c) the current course is an end-on course of the kind described in paragraph (e) of the definition of an end-on course in regulation 2.

(7B) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the net income of the eligible student’s dependent children in the financial year beginning immediately before the relevant year (“the current financial year”) is likely to be not more than 85 per cent of the sterling value of their net income in the prior financial year the Secretary of State may, for the purpose of enabling the eligible student to attend the course without hardship, ascertain the dependent children’s net income for the current financial year.

(7C) In the event that paragraph (7B) or this paragraph is applied in the previous academic year of the current course and the Secretary of State is satisfied that the net income of the eligible student’s dependent children in the financial year beginning immediately before the relevant year (“the current financial year”) is likely to be not more than 85 per cent of the sterling value of their net income in the previous financial year the Secretary of State may, for the purpose of enabling the eligible student to attend the course without hardship, ascertain the dependent children’s net income for the current financial year.

(7D) In an academic year immediately following one in which the Secretary of State has ascertained the eligible student’s dependent children’s net income for the current financial year under paragraph (7B) and, where applicable, under sub-paragraph (7C) the Secretary of State must ascertain the dependent children’s net income in the preceding financial year. ”.