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2013/14 HE Student Finance
Assessing Eligibility Guidance
• Childcare Grant, Travel Grant and DSA for the whole year of the
course in which the acquisition of child of a Swiss national
status” is awarded for any remaining quarters following the
acquisition of worker status, (except the quarter in which the
longest vacation falls)and subsequent years of the course. See
the guidance chapter, “Grants for Dependants and Travel
Grants” – regarding the support available to students who
become eligible during the course.
• Maintenance grant or special support grant in any subsequent
years of the course and in the quarters following the acquisition
of child of a Swiss national status, (if the status was acquired
within three months of the first day of the academic year).
• Tuition fee support, in any subsequent years of the course (and
in the academic year in which the child of a Swiss national
status is acquired if this is acquired within three months of the
first day of the academic year)
Children of Turkish Workers (Paragraph 12 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the
Regulations)
138. A student is potentially able to qualify for support where:
EU Member States
• he is the child of a Turkish worker. Regulation 2 defines such a
worker as a Turkish national who is ordinarily resident in the
United Kingdom and Islands, and is, or has been lawfully
employed in the United Kingdom, this includes periods of self
employment;
• he is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom on the first day of
the first academic year of the course; and
• he has been ordinarily resident in the EEA, Switzerland and
Turkey throughout the three year period preceding the first day
of the first academic year of the course.
139. The following countries are EC Member States:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
140. From the date of accession, a state that has joined the EC or the
EEA is considered to have always been part of the EEA (Paragraph
1(6) of Part 1 of Schedule 1). This will mean that students, who have
lived within that state for 3 years or more (or a combination of that
state and existing EEA countries or Switzerland), prior to the
commencement of their course, may be able to satisfy the
EEA/Switzerland residence requirement. The amount of support and
the period in respect of which support may be payable is determined
in accordance with the main body of the Regulations.
141. Regulation 17 provides that a student may qualify for fee support
during the course of the academic year in which the state of which
they are a national or one of their family members (as defined in Part
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