Students receiving maintenance/scholarship payments

Students in receipt of a Scholarship administered by the Research Student Administration Postgraduate Scholarships Office will receive payment information/notification directly from that office.  As a general rule, students in receipt of a Scholarship administered by the Postgraduate Scholarships Office are paid quarterly with due dates being detailed in the Scholarship award letter. 

If you are in receipt of a scholarship administered by the Postgraduate Scholarships Office for tuition fees, although you may be able to commence on-line registration, you will not be able to complete the process until the Accounts Receivable Office has received notification from the Postgraduate Scholarships Office that your fees are being met by a scholarship.  Returning students also need to have received their scholarship renewal letter from the Postgraduate Scholarships Office to enable them to complete registration. 

Student Maintenance is usually only paid to students who have completed registration and submitted UK bank account details in Student Services via the secure portal.  Since the University of Leeds work to strict payment deadlines it is imperative that you register as early as possible to ensure your ‘money’ is cleared by the due date.  The due date for the majority of awards is the first of the month, however due to process timing constraints it is not always possible for the payment to clear on the 1st.  If this is the case payments are processed to clear in bank accounts the nearest preceding Tuesday to the 1st.  Awards are normally paid quarterly in advance.

Further information about payment dates can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/studentservicescentre/financial_admin/pgmaint.htm   

It is the policy of the University of Leeds to process all student payments by the Bankers Automated Credit System, commonly known as BACS. In order to comply with this policy we request that you submit your UK bank account details as soon as you register using Student Services via the secure Student Portal. The registration instructions tell you how to do this.

Students whose first payment instalment is due on 1 October 2011 must have registered and submitted UK bank account details by 16 September 2011 to guarantee payment by the due date.  Students who register and submit UK bank account details by 26 September 2011 will guarantee payments into their bank on 4 October 2011 and students who register and submit bank account details by 3 October 2011 will guarantee payments into their bank on 11 October 2011.  After these dates, providing you have completed stage three of the registration process and submitted UK bank account details by 4pm on any Monday, and that all payment criteria is met your payment will be included in the Tuesday payment run and will clear in your bank account seven days later. This is providing notification of your award, either a Form 22 (for payment by instalments) or a Form 10 (for a single payment) has been submitted to the Financial Aid section of Student Administration by your School in advance of your registration.

LC 05/07/11