Full-time students
If you are a full-time student ‘attending or undertaking a full-time course of study’, you cannot normally get HB.
1Regs 53(1), definition of ‘full-time student’, and 56(1) HB Regs However, there are exceptions for some students.
You start being a student from the first day you attend or undertake the course. You stop being a student after the last day of the final academic term in which you are enrolled, or from the day you finally abandon your course or are dismissed from it.
2Reg 53(1), definition of ‘last day of the course’, and (2)(b) HB Regs