In message , at 23:02:30 on Tue, 25
Jan 2005, Nick Maclaren remarked:
And my recollection is that that for every extra pound the parent
earned, more than a pound was deducted from the grant. A poverty trap by
definition.

Or the student. My TOTAL gap year's income (after tax) was deducted
from my next year's grant AND FEES - though I now believe that I
should have got a solicitor to challenge the latter.

When was that. I don't recall contemporaries reporting such a thing in
the 70's.

If you had left home and were earning, there came a point that parental
income wasn't counted at all - which most students seemed to think was a
"good thing".
--
Roland Perry