Steven Darling, Director of Customer Experience, offers advice to help students get ready for payment
This is an exciting time of year for students, especially those who are about to begin their first year and take the next major step in realising their potential.
Many soon to be students up and down the country are preparing to move to a new town or city, meet new people, and for some, live independently of their parents for the first time and SLC is proud to play a role in supporting people through this exciting time in their life.
Enabling opportunity through the provision of student finance is what we're all about at SLC and over the next few weeks, we'll be paying out more than £2.2 billion in Maintenance funding to support students as they begin the 25/26 academic year.
I'm delighted that so many students took our advice and applied early. This has helped us get payments ready for over one million students, and once we receive confirmation that they have enrolled on their course from their college or university, payments will be made to students.
If anyone still hasn't applied, I'd urge you do so now. We won't be able to provide late applicants with their full entitlement immediately, but we will do all that we can to provide the minimum Maintenance Loan payment in the first instance, which we can top up once we fully process their application.
