Amount of bursary and grants available from SAAS each year for 2013-2023: FOI review

Information requested

The amount of bursary and grants available from SAAS each year for the past ten years, split by income category.

Response

For academic year 2012-2013 you should review the “Guide to student support 2012-2013” that was sent with your previous request in relation to available loan amounts as it has all the information about the bursary and grant amounts.

Please see below the bursary amounts for each year from 2013-2014 to present (2022-2023), split by income band.

2013-2014 to 2015-2016

Household Income	Young Student	Independent Student
£0 to £16,999	£1,750	£750
£17,000 to £23,999	£1,000	£0
£24,000 to £33,999	£500	£0
£34,000 and above	£0	£0

2016-2017 to 2018-2019

Household Income	Young Student	Independent Student
£0 to £18,999	£1,875	£875
£19,000 to £23,999	£1,125	£0
£24,000 to £33,999	£500	£0
£34,000 and above	£0	£0

2019-2020 to 2022-2023

Household Income	Young Student	Independent Student
£0 to £20,999	£2,000	£1,000
£21,000 to £23,999	£1,125	£0
£24,000 to £33,999	£500	£0
£34,000 and above	£0	£0

A Care Experienced Bursary was introduced in 2017-18 for eligible undergraduate students who have been looked after by a local authority:

Academic session	Amount
2017-2018	£7,625
2018-2019 to present	£8,100

The following living-cost grants are available to undergraduate students:

Dependants’ Grant is an income-assessed grant for students with adult dependents (husband, wife, civil partner, partner or any other adult dependant the student is a carer for) who are not students. SAAS awards up to £2,640 a year, taking into account any income the dependent has.

Lone Parents’ Grant is an income-assessed grant for single students (single, widowed, divorced, separated or a civil partnership has dissolved) with at least one dependent child (someone the student receives Child Tax Credit for). SAAS awards up to £1,305 a year, taking into account any unearned income the student receives during the academic session.

Disabled Students’ Allowance is a non-income assessed allowance to cover any extra costs or expenses a student might have while studying, which arise because of their disability. The student does not need to be claiming tuition fees and/or living-costs funding from SAAS to claim DSA. Statistics on DSA support are published for supported full-time students (and separately for those on the Nursing & Midwifery Student Bursary scheme).

Educational Psychology Grant is a non-income assessed training grant of £15,000 per year for students undertaking the full-time MSc Educational Psychology course. The grant is conditional on trainees committing to a two-year post-qualification period working as an educational psychologist in an Educational Psychology Service in Scotland.

Care Experienced Accommodation Grant is a non-income assessed allowance for students claiming a Care Experienced Bursary, visit the Bursaries section for more information. The grant is paid directly to students, to help with accommodation costs during the summer holidays that fall between each year of their course. SAAS awards up to £105 a week.

There is also more information on the bursaries and grant in the background policy documents on the website.

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