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I shall (later on today) be writing a post about last week, which has to have been the oddest week of my life.
I did intend to post it last night, however I was busy trying to decipher and complete the 23-page form PN1 (Application for Student Finance, on top of which four pages must be completed by the parents) until an unspeakable hour in the evening.
Now, I can understand their need to be concise, that they need to know as much as possible in order to allow for payments to be just, but I do fail to see how absolutely every question is necessary, nor why the applicant is asked to repeat certain things as they move through the form.
Just another day in Brown’s Bureaucratic Britain, I suppose. As if we weren’t wasting enough paper in this Country already…
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What questions didn’t you think were necessary?
“What questions didn’t you think were necessary?”
Erm, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8…
3 is to work out if you are English or whether you’ve lived outside the EU.
4 is necessary as you get less money if you live at home.
6 is necessary so they know where to put your money.
7 is to work out whether you live with your parents or not.
8 is incase you have a job and earn lots of money, or have a child to look after.
Rob: firstly, those are sections not questions; and secondly, I was having a joke on account of the fact I didn’t have my student finance form on me at the time.
I forget off the top of my head, but there were a few questions which just made me think “huh? why do they need to know that!”.
I did wonder, as none fo the questions were numbered, other than a1, a2 etc.
You’re a fool for not having it then.
The form was at home – I was in school. There was no reason for me having it then!