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<strong>2013</strong>/<strong>14</strong> HE <strong>Student</strong> Finance<br />
<strong>Assessing</strong> <strong>Eligibility</strong> <strong>Guidance</strong><br />
96. The definition of „family member‟ is dependent on the category of<br />
person to whom we are referring. The table below explains this<br />
further:<br />
Category of person<br />
An EEA migrant worker, EEA<br />
frontier worker, EEA frontier selfemployed<br />
person or an EEA selfemployed<br />
person<br />
Swiss employed person, Swiss<br />
frontier employed person, Swiss<br />
frontier self-employed person or a<br />
Swiss self-employed person<br />
Definition of family member<br />
His spouse or civil partner,<br />
direct descendants under the age of 21 or<br />
dependant on the person or the person‟s<br />
spouse or civil partner; Or dependent (see<br />
note 1 below) direct relatives in his<br />
ascending line (see note 2) or that of his<br />
spouse or civil partner<br />
His spouse or civil partner and his<br />
children or children of his spouse or civil<br />
partner<br />
Note 1 – “Dependent” may mean financially dependent, but dependency<br />
for reasons of health or other reasons should also be considered.<br />
Note 2 – Direct relatives in his ascending line means parents, including<br />
adoptive or step-parents.<br />
97. The Regulations do not require that migrant worker status is met on<br />
the first day of the first academic year of the course, only that the<br />
student was ordinarily resident in England on that day.<br />
98. A student with “worker status” or their family member i.e. a person<br />
who satisfies the requirements to be treated as a person in the<br />
above table can become eligible for tuition fee and maintenance<br />
loans and grants during an academic year. In these circumstances<br />
the student is eligible for;<br />
• Loans for living costs, Adult Dependants‟ Grant and Parents‟<br />
Learning Allowance in any subsequent years of the course and<br />
in the quarters following the acquisition of worker status, (except<br />
the quarter in which the longest vacation falls);<br />
• Childcare Grant, Travel Grant and DSA for the whole year of the<br />
course in which the acquisition of “worker status” is awarded for<br />
any remaining quarters following the acquisition of worker<br />
status, (except the quarter in which the longest vacation<br />
falls)and subsequent years of the course. See the guidance<br />
chapter, “Grants for Dependants and Travel Grants” – regarding<br />
the support available to students who become eligible during<br />
the course.<br />
• Maintenance grant or special support grant in any subsequent<br />
years of the course and in the quarters following the award of<br />
the refugee status, (if the status was acquired within three<br />
months of the first day of the academic year).<br />
• Tuition fee support, in any subsequent years of the course (and<br />
in the academic year in which worker status is acquired if this is<br />
acquired within three months of the first day of the academic<br />
year)<br />
99. The residence criteria that must be met by those who come within<br />
paragraph 6(1)(a) is as follows;<br />
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