a friend of mine droppedout of university in the first year, and didnt tell the student loan people or his parents this. for three years he lived off this fraudulent loan and several thousand pounds his proud mum and dad gave him as a lump sum for the future. when they found out about uni, they wanted evidence that the money was still in his account so he forged a letter from the bank by cutting up and colour photocopying a bank statement. then his mum found the cut up statement in a cupboard.
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 18:31,
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Hate to be anal, but...The system is fairly watertight, bordering on insurmountable, when it comes to people dropping out of university and still trying to claim their student loans.
Put it this way - it took me, a legitimate student with no unusual circumstances, five months to secure my loan this year. I doubt that the same company would 'accidentally' keep giving this guy money.
(nudge nudge) Oh alright then time to confess to my own whoppers. Whilst putting my CV together this year, I noticed that my work experience was less than impressive (filing, data entry etc) so I contacted a friendly ex-manager and talked her into entering an elaborate lie where she would vouch I was doing such things as customer care and selling, etc.
Having said that most people would admit their CVs are masterpieces of fibology.
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Wed 26 Nov 2003, 12:49,
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Put it this way - it took me, a legitimate student with no unusual circumstances, five months to secure my loan this year. I doubt that the same company would 'accidentally' keep giving this guy money.
(nudge nudge) Oh alright then time to confess to my own whoppers. Whilst putting my CV together this year, I noticed that my work experience was less than impressive (filing, data entry etc) so I contacted a friendly ex-manager and talked her into entering an elaborate lie where she would vouch I was doing such things as customer care and selling, etc.
Having said that most people would admit their CVs are masterpieces of fibology.
frankly mate you must havea shit credit rating or something, by my final year they were throwing hardship grants and all sorts at me with no real background checks. i have friends with 3 student bank accounts, all with maxed-out overdrafts. the student loan company is a government agency and as such dosen't really give a watermelon.
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Thu 27 Nov 2003, 9:01,
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