Financial Support from the LSE Students' Union
[The Students' Union Advice Centre|/main/support/advicecentre] is the place to go for all the types of help detailed below. The professional advisers there can offer you confidential guidance on all kinds of finance or debt problems, by helping in the following ways:
Debt counselling: General help and guidance on managing your money or dealing with problems that have arisen
External sources of help: Information on awards available outside LSE. Ask to see the "Grants Directories"
Students' Union Hardship Funds: Awards of up to £500 (£1,000 for Disabled Students Fund and Childcare Fund) offered from Union funds for students experiencing hardship. Students in the following categories are eligible to make an application, which will be determined by the Welfare Panel following an interview. These funds are very over-subscribed, so again it is worth seriously considering whether you have done everything you can to obtain extra funding before beginning the application process.
Disabled Students - for students with a disability who incur additional unmet costs as a consequence of disability.
Childcare - for students in financial hardship who incur childcare costs during their course of study
Re-sits - for any student in financial hardship undertaking part of all of a course
Medical Costs - for any student whose high medical costs cause financial hardship
Council Tax - for students in financial hardship who incur Council Tax liability because they live with their partner. (The criteria for this fund are slightly more complex-contact the [Advice Centre|/main/support/advicecentre] for more info)
Small Claims - for students wishing to take County Court Small Claims action where the admin. costs of action are beyond their means
Women's Right to Choose Fund - Awards offered to pregnant students in financial hardship to cover the cost of private abortion treatment or maternal costs before and immediately after the baby is born (such as clothes). In this way, the award, usually of around £500 allows a women to choose which course to take. *
