How students with parents on minimum wage will miss out on maintenance grants

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Around 90 per cent of English students will not be eligible for maintenance grants, analysis has found, raising concerns that many of the poorest will miss out due to restrictions…

Around 90 per cent of English students will not be eligible for maintenance grants, analysis has found, raising concerns that many of the poorest will miss out due to restrictions that are “completely bonkers”.

The restrictions mean that even students with two parents working on minimum wage will miss out on the funding.

Only 97,000 to 129,000 students – out of more than 1.1 million – will be able to get the grants, which will return from 2028, according to estimates by the Centre for Economics and Business Research for The i Paper.

The support will be limited to those with household incomes of up to £30,000 studying subjects in line with the Government’s industrial strategy, which are expected to include engineering and health.

Those with household incomes of up to £25,000 will get £1,000 in each of their first two years and £750 in each of the remaining years of their undergraduate degrees.

The amount will taper down to £500 in the first two years and £375 in remaining years as incomes get closer to £30,000.

Lewis Wilson, vice president at the National Union of Students, said the income threshold was “completely bonkers” and would leave out most students with two working parents.

Two parents working 35 hours a week on the minimum wage would have a combined income of £46,300 – well above the threshold.

A full-time working parent on the minimum wage is paid more than £26,000 a year – already putting them near the threshold.

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