{"id":8780,"date":"2020-06-16T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T08:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2020-06-16T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T08:50:48","slug":"summer-financial-support-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/summer-financial-support-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer financial support for students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the 11th<\/sup> June \u201820 the Scottish Government announced a package of new measures for students facing financial hardship this summer due to the COVID-19 outbreak.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fund, to be administered by colleges and universities, will allow institutions to offer discretionary payments to students to bridge the timing gap between bursary payments ending in June and Universal Credit payments starting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scottish students studying in Europe as part of EU Portability or historically arranged schemes will also be able to access a \u00a3100,000 emergency fund administered by the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAAS has also suspended all new debt recovery actions in respect to grants and bursaries until September for students whose circumstances have changed and may have to return overpayments. Students are encouraged to contact SAAS to discuss what help is available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further information please visit: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.studentinformation.gov.scot<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.saas.gov.uk<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you require help with living expenses, including if you’re facing an immediate financial crisis or awaiting decisions on other support, students may be able to get help from the local authority through the Scottish Welfare Fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/scottish-welfare-fund\/crisis-grants<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you require any further information regarding funding, please contact <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alison Clark  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covid-19 Response Coordinator <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiree Community Development Trust  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

E: alison@tireetrust.org.uk<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

T: 07741 489 959 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 11th June \u201820 the Scottish Government announced a package of new measures for students facing financial hardship this summer due to the COVID-19 outbreak.    The fund, to be administered by colleges and universities, will allow institutions to offer discretionary payments to students to bridge the timing gap between bursary payments ending in June and Universal Credit payments starting.   Scottish students studying in Europe as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students-young-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tireetrust.org.uk\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}