Published on 12, July, 2020
It took my son many years to get to university but with the right support he got there.
He has spent all of his student loan and now can't pay his rent, and his housemates are annoyed with him. His dad is in hospital and he's really struggling, he also has other health problems
We applied for a Hardship fund with the university but they rejected it because he had enough money from his student loan, but that is gone now. He also has loan sharks which is scary and making the problem worse. I don't think they've taken into consideration his needs and what that means for money management.
We are appealing it. I was wondering if there's any information we could put on the application to help win an appeal.
Thanks,
Michelle
You obviously need to deal with the short term issue, but I think in the medium term it may help him to learn about budgeting. There is a really good app called You Need a Budget or YNAB that might help him. This really helped me to understand my income and outgoings when I didn't have much money and it is a very autism friendly:
www.youneedabudget.com/