It has been revealed that scores of disabled undergraduates in Norfolk are included in hundreds of students who have started their university life without the loans and allowances which they require for their survival.

Disable students are suffering a lot

Students that are having disabilities are some of the hardest hit by a backlog of applications being dealt with by the Student Loans Company (SLC), and they are now being forced to live off emergency handouts from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Disabled students allowance

They are relying on the disabled students allowance in order to pay for lifeline services that includes specialist computers and software, sign language interpreters and note takers.

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Bigger overdrafts have been offered by a high street bank Lloyds TSB to those that are affected by delays to the student finance system.

Students starting university without full funding

There are hundred of students out there who are starting university this month without full funding after the Student Loans Company (SLC) struggled to cope with demand.

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