some financial drama
so this is not only a post but a lesson in thinking "oh well, the worst is behind me" too soon.
i'm sure by now that everyone is aware that my finances are not quite stable at the moment what with having no job but atleast dan has one and we are slowly getting sorted. we even paid off the council tax bill this morning (the very bill i had been dreading for the past 2 months). "great!" thought i. "i'll pay off my avon debts slowly (yes, thats right, avon is a great big bust and i now owe them close to £100 which i'm paying off in installments) and then i can concentrate of getting in the baby shopping.
yesterday i recieved a fabulous phonecall from the university of sunderland telling me that i owe them £1048.50 in tuition fees. i have till the 14th to get something sorted.
now i remember this issue well. student finance direct, which deals with loans etc is notorious for its cock ups and despite three different requests for maintenance and tuition fees they failed to provide adequately. first off they didnt give me anything which i didnt notice till i ran out of money and a bill came for £1048.50 from the university. i hastily applied for that much and since it was granted i thought no more of it. till i recieved a further bill for the next 2 semesters. i applied for that amount after explaining to the nice people at student finance what the issue was and this got granted. however, a mix up saw that they paid me the remainder (the amount specified by the 3rd application) but disregarded the amount on the 2nd application which is where the discrepancy comes in.
at this time i was pretty busy being abused by my ex and trying to top myself so dealing with this became a little bit tricky, especially as i was trying to get back on my feet. also going on at the time was the 'leave of absence' which the university had granted me but not told me about which meant that, as close to graduating as i was, there was a huge chunk of results etc which i had to chase up because they simply were not in the system.
i did talk to many different people about my financial problem and we all agreed that the problem lay with student finance and as i wasn't getting anywhere we agreed that they should get in touch with them.
and i simply forgot about it.
i spoke to a person at student finance last night who agreed that there was a genuine mistake which was made and is sending me an application form for the remaining tuition fees. however, there is no garuntee that the good people at head office will accept something two years late. however, he did suggest that if they didnt then i had a case for appeal.
and if that doesnt work....i have to arrange a payment plan and ask my family to help me. which is not something i'm looking forward to because its such an obcsene amount to ask for and i had very much wanted them to be able to spend money on sprout.
also, then they'll know that i'm an idiot.
this is just not fun.
i'm sure by now that everyone is aware that my finances are not quite stable at the moment what with having no job but atleast dan has one and we are slowly getting sorted. we even paid off the council tax bill this morning (the very bill i had been dreading for the past 2 months). "great!" thought i. "i'll pay off my avon debts slowly (yes, thats right, avon is a great big bust and i now owe them close to £100 which i'm paying off in installments) and then i can concentrate of getting in the baby shopping.
yesterday i recieved a fabulous phonecall from the university of sunderland telling me that i owe them £1048.50 in tuition fees. i have till the 14th to get something sorted.
now i remember this issue well. student finance direct, which deals with loans etc is notorious for its cock ups and despite three different requests for maintenance and tuition fees they failed to provide adequately. first off they didnt give me anything which i didnt notice till i ran out of money and a bill came for £1048.50 from the university. i hastily applied for that much and since it was granted i thought no more of it. till i recieved a further bill for the next 2 semesters. i applied for that amount after explaining to the nice people at student finance what the issue was and this got granted. however, a mix up saw that they paid me the remainder (the amount specified by the 3rd application) but disregarded the amount on the 2nd application which is where the discrepancy comes in.
at this time i was pretty busy being abused by my ex and trying to top myself so dealing with this became a little bit tricky, especially as i was trying to get back on my feet. also going on at the time was the 'leave of absence' which the university had granted me but not told me about which meant that, as close to graduating as i was, there was a huge chunk of results etc which i had to chase up because they simply were not in the system.
i did talk to many different people about my financial problem and we all agreed that the problem lay with student finance and as i wasn't getting anywhere we agreed that they should get in touch with them.
and i simply forgot about it.
i spoke to a person at student finance last night who agreed that there was a genuine mistake which was made and is sending me an application form for the remaining tuition fees. however, there is no garuntee that the good people at head office will accept something two years late. however, he did suggest that if they didnt then i had a case for appeal.
and if that doesnt work....i have to arrange a payment plan and ask my family to help me. which is not something i'm looking forward to because its such an obcsene amount to ask for and i had very much wanted them to be able to spend money on sprout.
also, then they'll know that i'm an idiot.
this is just not fun.