Studying
If the claimant is at school or in higher education, the claimant may be able to get Income Support if they are:
- Looking after the claimant's own child
- An orphan and nobody is looking after the claimant
- Unlikely to be able to get a job because of a severe disability.
- Not living with the claimant's parents or being supported by them
- Not in touch with the claimant's parents
- Separated from the claimant's parents for reasons that cannot be avoided and nobody is looking after the claimant.
If the claimant is aged 18 to 24 and is attending an unwaged Work Based Learning Programme (England) or Skillseekers (Scotland) course, the claimant may be able to get Income Support.
If the claimant is aged 16 or 17, the claimant may get Income Support only if in one of the categories of persons who can get Income Support whilst studying.
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Famous quotes containing the word studying:
“We didn’t come to dig in Egypt for medals. Much more is learned from studying bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our own curiosity.”
—John L. Balderston (1899–1954)
“Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“It’s only when you have to use what you’ve studied that you regret not studying more.”
—Chinese proverb.