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Figure 5: Total amounts paid in award payments (£m), 2002-03 to 2007-08
Source: SAAS management information.
Data for this chart taken from Table 8.
The 'young, with dependent and disabled group' includes those students receiving Young Students Bursary, Young Students Outside Scotland Bursary, Dependants Grant, Lone Parents Grant, Lone Parents Childcare Grant and Disabled Students Allowance.
15. Figure 5 and Table 8 show that total award payments have increased by 24.0% since academic year 2002-2003, despite a dip in 2004-2005 relating to the abolition of Dependents Grant for children 1, to £104.8 million in 2007-2008. Award payments to the 'young, with dependents and disabled group' follow the same trend and have increased by 36.8% since 2002-2003 although amounts paid out in 2007-2008 were 0.4% higher than in 2006-2007 compared to an increase of 1.9% for all awards. The additional increase in total awards is attributed to increases in payments of Students Outside Scotland Bursary ( SOSB), Standard Maintenance Allowance and Travel Expenses which are not included in the 'young, with dependents and disabled' group of awards.
16. Payments of Young Students Bursary ( YSB) have increased in each academic year since 2002-2003 and were 121.6% higher in 2007-2008 at £66.9 million. The most pronounced rise occurred between academic years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 when YSB payments grew by 43.5%. This was a result of changes to the income thresholds meaning that more students were eligible for the maximum payment and an above inflation increase of this payment. Increases in YSB awards paid out have been smaller in more recent academic years: between 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 there was a rise of 0.2% compared to 2.2% between 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. This reflects the decrease in YSB recipients seen in Figure 4 and Table 8. Awards paid to the 'young, with dependents and disabled' group make up 77.0% of all award payments in 2007-2008 and YSB payments make up 82.9% of payments made to this group.
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