Exam fee grant

If your course has an exam, this grant can cover the associated fees. Grants cannot cover tuition fees. If you are not eligible for a concessionary fee, you may be eligible for an exam fee grant if you:
• are working and earn £160 per week or less (mortgage/rent or other outgoings will not be taken into consideration)
• provide evidence of all your income each time you apply for the grant. This can be the last two months' payslips, a letter from your employer or your accounts for the last financial year if you are self-employed.

You will not be eligible:
• if your course has no examination
• if you are only receiving Incapacity Benefits or Disability Living Allowance*
• for courses which run for one or two days
• for full cost courses
• if you are an international student
• if you are a full-time student
• if you have no income and are not working but being supported financially by someone else
• you cannot provide satisfactory evidence of your income.

If you have been offered an exam fee grant for one term it does not guarantee that you will be offered one the following term.

To arrange for an exam fee grant you will need to visit the Information and Advice shop, which is to the left of the main doors at the main City Lit site (Keeley Street). Unfortunately this grant cannot be arranged over the phone.

*The examination fee grant is only available to those working and on a low income. It is not applicable if you are; dependant on others, working unpaid for voluntary organisations or on non-means tested benefits such as Incapacity Benefit or Disability Living Allowance.
If you are in receipt of Incapacity Benefit or Disability Living Allowance and still facing financial hardship, you could be entitled to means tested benefits.

See if you are eligible here: www.entitledto.co.uk/
For further information please contact your local DWP office: www.dwp.gov.uk/localoffice/

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