Box H.2: Student support and universal credit

Type of student support	Counted as income
Full-time student maintenance loan The maximum loan you are entitled to is treated as income, whatever amount you actually borrow. If you don’t apply for a loan, the decision maker will still take into account the maximum loan you could have got if you had applied; £110 a month is disregarded. If you are not entitled to a loan but receive a grant, the grant income is taken into account as income, subject to the disregards in (3) in this chapter .	Yes
Postgraduate loan Postgraduate doctoral loan 30% of the maximum loan you are entitled to is treated as income, whatever amount you actually borrow. If you don’t apply for a loan, the decision maker will still take into account the maximum loan you could have got if you had applied; £110 a month is disregarded.	Yes Yes
Tuition fees loan	No
Maintenance grant	No
Special support grant	No
Disabled students’ allowance and travel expenses grant	No
Childcare grant and p

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