13. Payments towards education
The following are disregarded:
■education maintenance allowance and 16-19 bursary fund payments; and
■repayments of student loans to certain newly qualified teachers.
If you make assessed parental contributions to a student son or daughter, the amount you pay is disregarded from your income – unless the student is under 25, is in advanced education and receives only a discretionary grant or gets no grant or loan, in which case the disregard is limited to £75.65 a week, less the amount of any discretionary grant payable.
, paras 11, 12, 19 & 20
Certain amounts of a student grant or loan and other support to students can be disregarded (see
Box H.3 in Chapter 30).