We treat your husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's contribution as part of your support, and we will reduce the amount we pay by the amount of the assessed contribution.
Your husband, wife, civil partner or partner do not have to give us details of their income, but without income details we cannot assess their contribution. In these circumstances, we cannot assess an income-assessed loan, bursary (where applicable) or grant payments. If you are studying on a course at a UK institution outside Scotland and started your course in 2005-2006, or earlier, this means that we cannot pay our contribution towards your tuition fees either.
Your husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's contribution we assess will be on your award notice that we send you. We will not tell them separately about the amount we expect them to contribute. If they need to know what their contribution is, you can show them your award notice or they can contact us. We can also tell tnem what their contribution is if they call us.
We will not expect your husband, wife, civil partner or partner to contribute if a parents' contribution applies.
How we work out your husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's contribution
Whether we will expect them to contribute to your support depends on their income after we deduct the following:
- Maintenance paid out for a child who is a student (we do not deduct maintenance payments paid for a child that is not a student).
Once we have made the relevant deductions and we know your husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's total income, we can assess the contribution. The table below shows the husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's contribution for the levels of income shown.
| Income after deductions £ |
Assessed contribution £ |
Income after deductions £ |
Assessed contribution £ |
Income after deductions £ |
Assessed contribution £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20,645 | 45 | 40,000 | 2,196 | 60,000 | 4,803 |
| 21,000 | 84 | 41,000 | 2,307 | 61,000 | 4,957 |
| 22,000 | 196 | 42,000 | 2,418 | 62,000 | 5,111 |
| 23,000 | 307 | 43,000 | 2,529 | 63,000 | 5,265 |
| 24,000 | 418 | 44,000 | 2,640 | 64,000 | 5,419 |
| 25,000 | 529 | 45,000 | 2,751 | 65,000 | 5,573 |
| 26,000 | 640 | 46,000 | 2,862 | 66,000 | 5,727 |
| 27,000 | 751 | 47,000 | 2,973 | 67,000 | 5,880 |
| 28,000 | 862 | 48,000 | 3,084 | 68,000 | 6,034 |
| 29,000 | 973 | 49,000 | 3,196 | 69,000 | 6,199 |
| 30,000 | 1,084 | 50,000 | 3,307 | 70,000 | 6,342 |
| 31,000 | 1,196 | 51,000 | 3,419 | 71,000 | 6,496 |
| 32,000 | 1,307 | 52,000 | 3,573 | 72,000 | 6,650 |
| 33,000 | 1,418 | 53,000 | 3,727 | 73,000 | 6,803 |
| 34,000 | 1,529 | 54,000 | 3,880 | 74,000 | 6,957 |
| 35,000 | 1,640 | 55,000 | 4,034 | 75,000 | 7,111 |
| 36,000 | 1,751 | 56,000 | 4,188 | 76,000 | 7,265 |
| 37,000 | 1,862 | 57,000 | 4,342 | 77,000 | 7,419 |
| 38,000 | 1,973 | 58,000 | 4,496 | 78,000 | 7,573 |
| 39,000 | 2,084 | 59,000 | 4,650 | 80.775 | 8,000 |
We do not assess a contribution for incomes below £20,645 after deductions. The assessed contribution is £8,000 for incomes above £80,775 after deductions.
If you enter your husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's income into our support calculator, we can tell you the exact contribution we expect them to make towards your support.
Other dependent children in the family
The assessed contribution may be less than the amount shown in the table above if there are other dependent children in the family. In this case, we will reduce the husband's, wife's, civil partner's or partner's contribution by £195 for each child. You can give details of dependent children up to the age of 18 if they are still in full-time education at a secondary school. This does not include the student in this application or any other applicants for student support for any other awards for further or higher education.
If your siblings are also receiving support, we make only one assessment of the husband's, wife's,civil partner's or partner's contribution for the family and split the contribution equally between the students receiving support.
It is important to tell us if any other member of your family is applying for support under the Postgraduate Students' Allowances Scheme, the Students' Allowances Scheme, or a bursary paid either under the Education Authority Bursaries (Scotland) Regulations or from a further education college. It is equally important to tell an education authority or further education college that another member of your family is applying for support from us. Students who are taking a course of further education and are under 18 will not be included in the joint assessment. We will treat such students as 'other dependent children in the family' as detailed above and reduce the parents' contribution by £195 for each student this applies to.