Additional Fee Support Scheme

The Additional Fee Support Scheme is available to Part – Time Undergraduate students whose Fee Support is insufficient to meet the Full Tuition Fee, depending on the intensity of the course.

Students must meet the following eligibility criteria to apply for the scheme;

1. Residence conditions - relating to their Residence and Immigration Status on the first day of the first academic year of their course.
2. There is a requirement that the course will be at least equivalent to 50% (60 credit points) of a full time course.
3. Disabled students who are not eligible for statutory support due to the nature of their disability, which means they are unable to study to at least 50% of a full time course, must studying at least 25% of a full time course.

*EU students entitled to the Statutory Fee Grant will be eligible to apply for the Additional Fee Support Scheme provided they meet the other eligibility criteria.

Students must apply for their statutory support on a PTG1 form, which can be downloaded from the Direct.gov website. Once completed it should be sent to Chris Bull in Registry, Room 222, Leighton, Headingley Campus, to confirm enrolment and the amount of Tuition Fees. Once the form has been authorised by the University, it will be returned to the student to be sent off to Student Finance England with their evidence to be assessed for their funding.

To qualify for the Scheme applicants must be in receipt of a Fee Grant. Where this is the maximum for the intensity of study (£820, £985 or £1230) the scheme will pay up to £800 of the current year’s course tuition fee. Where students are awarded a Partial Fee Grant, the scheme will award a maximum of £250 towards the Fee costs. The remaining balance will be the student’s responsibility.

Students should not make an application to the scheme until they are enrolled as a student and are in receipt of their Student Finance Breakdown from Student Finance England.

The Additional Fee Support Scheme application form will be sent to the student, when their PTG1 is returned.

(Please note that the completed form must to be sent to Financial Support at the address shown on the form. It will not be processed if the Student Finance Breakdown letter is not attached)

Once your completed application form has been received you will receive a letter confirming the outcome, this will usually be within 2 weeks. The Finance department will also be notified and if appropriate an invoice raised for any balance due.

Please note that no payment will be made where there has been previous study and the assessment will be wholly based on the levels of household incomes as per the threshold bands published by Student Finance England.

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