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Confused

meoklmrk91 · 2012-12-18 17:49:25

Got a letter from SUSI this morning, saying that I had been approved for the full adjecent rate, here's the problem last year I got the full non adjecent rate, I have exactly the same circumstances and I am still living in the same place going to the same college? Has the distance criterion changed since last year?

18-12-2012 5:49pm

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Got a letter from SUSI this morning, saying that I had been approved for the full adjecent rate, here's the problem last year I got the full non adjecent rate, I have exactly the same circumstances and I am still living in the same place going to the same college? Has the distance criterion changed since last year?

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#2 19-12-2012 9:42am

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No the distance criteria hasn't changed but the scales SUSI use to assess distance may have. Get in touch with them and let them know that you got the NA rate last year. You will probably have to appeal it.

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#3 19-12-2012 8:44pm

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The distance in the 2010/2011 academic year was 24km

The distance in the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 academic year is 45km.

If you got the non adjacent rate in 2011/2012 then I see no reason why you shouldn't be still receiving that rate.

Get back onto them and tell them you received the non adjacent rate last year so that is what you should be getting this year.

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