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Table 6: Students assessed by SAAS 1 as entitled to loans and total entitlement, 2002-03 to 2007-08

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

Students Entitled 1,2

Total Entitlement (£1000s) 3

Students Entitled 1,2

Total Entitlement (£1000s) 3

Students Entitled 1,2

Total Entitlement (£1000s) 3

Total Loan 4

91,755

228,728

90,950

223,172

86,440

208,412

Non Income Assessed Loan

90,300

95,258

89,665

82,170

85,210

70,337

Income Assessed Loan

67,430

127,294

68,070

133,200

64,600

129,442

Additional Income Assessed loan

13,035

6,176

16,075

7,803

17,545

8,633

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Students Entitled 1,2

Total Entitlement (£1000s) 3

Students Entitled 1,2

Total Entitlement (£1000s) 3

Students Entitled 1,2

Total Entitlement (£1000s) 3

Total Loan 4

84,065

191,707

80,450

185,813

78,175

184,312

Non Income Assessed Loan

83,155

66,835

79,635

62,959

77,465

61,222

Income Assessed Loan

62,350

115,981

59,310

113,982

57,480

114,309

Additional Income Assessed loan

17,505

8,891

16,980

8,872

16,405

8,782

Source: SAAS management information.
1. Student loan entitlement is calculated by SAAS but the Student Loans Company extends the loan. These figures relate to entitlement rather than uptake which may be lower. Prior to 1999/00 students applied for a loan through their institution.
2. Student numbers have been rounded up or down to the nearest 5 (e.g. 1, 2 round to 0, 3, 4 round to 5). Both full and part-time students are included in the table.
3. Cash totals have been rounded to the nearest thousand and may not equal the sum of their constituent parts due to this rounding.
4. Each student is counted once in the 'total loan' row irrespective of the number of different loans they receive. For this reason the total number of students is lower than the sum of the number students entitled to support through each individual loan.

  • Non Income Assessed Loan - The total number of students receiving the part of the loan where income is irrelevant. This will include those who have declared their income and those who want the loan but did not declare the income, as it may be too high to receive any income assessed support.
  • Income Assessed Loan - Only includes those who have declared income (or are independent and get max loan) and the income is low enough to ensure they get some or all of the income assessed loan. Most students in this category also get the non income assessed loan.
  • Additional Income Assessed loan - small extra loan available to those on very low incomes. Paid in addition to the income assessed loan and the non income assessed loan, therefore most students in this category should be included in those above.

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