December 11, 2009, 5:29 pm
After finally getting my award notice through (three flipping months), I found a nice sum in my bank account. Lovely. Then I checked my award letter and realised it was less than half what I was expecting. Not so lovely.
I’m due over £5k in student loans to tide me over as I qualify [...]
December 1, 2009, 4:47 pm
Well, after waiting almost three months and giving up on phoning them, I emailed again yesterday and – amazingly – received a response this morning. I guess they’ve actually hired some staff or something.
The bulk of the mail is as follows:
I can confirm that as you had stated that you had lived [...]
November 30, 2009, 12:23 pm
SAAS are still defying belief as one of the most inept government departments I have ever dealt with. And that’s facing some stiff competition.
Following on from the last letter I received and responded to, I have waited a month and heard nothing. I called them (or tried to – see earlier posts) with [...]
November 17, 2009, 7:02 pm
How SAAS make the money to pay your course fees
For those who’ve tried to call SAAS recently, I’m guessing you likely had a nightmare getting through to them on the phone. I tried last week, and it took me about 20 attempts not to get a busy tone. I was then [...]
October 20, 2009, 10:38 pm
SAAS – see this? It's like mine – BRITISH.
For those who don’t know SAAS is the government body responsible for withholding as much cash as possible instead of dishing it out to students in Scotland to pay things like course fees, and buy things like food.
Yes, you guessed it. It’s [...]
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